Hello,

I cannot enter or view japanese characters on a Mac Running Snow Leopard with 
PyQt 4.8.1.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
0) I Installed python 2.7 from python.org and other prerequisites, like sip
1) Download PyQt 4.8.1
2) Run python configure.py install
3) Switch the Mac to hiragana input using the MacOS system widget
4) cd to PyQt-mac-gpl-4.8.1/examples/widgets
5) Run python lineedits.py
6) Try to write japanese text. 

Vowels do not appear at all. Consonants appear initially underlined, but 
disappear again when the following vowel is entered and the japanese input 
system tries to display the resulting japanese syllable.

The context is that I am trying to port a vocabulary trainer based on python 
and PyQt to the Mac. This program allows to enter words in non-latin fonts, 
like japanese. This doesn't work. The symptomes are exactly the same as with 
lineedit.py.

I assume this is a display issue, because japanese cards that have been entered 
before (using an earlier version of the program) are not displayed also, but if 
I look at the database directly the japanese words are displayed correctly.

I described the issue with japanese hiragana. Displaying japanese kanjii does 
not work either, but the steps neccessary for reproducing this variant of the 
issue are much more complicated because entering kanjii characters directly is 
next to impossible because of the hiragana issue.

Is this a known limitation? What would I have to do to allow japanese (and 
non-latin in general, I assume) input and display?

thanks in advance,
Ullrich
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