Hi, It's not anything to do with the font.
Qt uses 16-bit unicode strings internally. If you give a str to a PySide function, it will need to decode it, and by default it will probably treat it as ASCII. If you want Qt to assume 8-bit strings are UTF-8 encoded, you can use the following: from PySide.QtCore import QTextCodec QTextCodec.setCodecForCStrings(QTextCodec.codecForName("UTF-8")) However it would be better practice to pass it unicode strings if you can. Dan On 3 March 2016 at 00:45, Frank Rueter | OHUfx <fr...@ohufx.com> wrote: > Thanks guys. > > >>That would imply that your tooltip uses a different default font. > Aha, that makes perfect sense, thank you! > I'm currently on OSX using Wing as my IDE. When I ran this code inside a > host application, it worked fine (because it changes the default font). > I will verify that though before moving on. Text encoding/decoding always > confuses me (I hardly have to deal with it, so there is no routine) and I > want to get it right this time. > > Cheers, > frank > > > On 03/03/2016 06:26 AM, Tim Roberts wrote: > > Sebastian Elsner | RISE wrote: > > Unicode is tricky, it bites me every time. This works: > > > It's not that hard. There are two possibilities. Either the setTool > function does not accept Unicode strings, or the default tool tip font does > not include those extended characters. > > > Please note, the .py file actually has to be saved/encoded as utf-8. You > need to do this via your editor's save/convert function. > > > Actually, it doesn't. There are no characters in his file beyond the base > ASCII set, except for the one character in a comment, so the file coding is > irrelevant. If this worked for you, then his original code would have > worked for you also. That would imply that your tooltip uses a different > default font. No one here has mentioned what operating systems they are > using; that makes a difference. > > -- > Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > > > _______________________________________________ > PySide mailing > listPySide@qt-project.orghttp://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside > > > > _______________________________________________ > PySide mailing list > PySide@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside > > -- Dan Milburn Software Engineer - Nuke The Foundry 5 Golden Square London W1F 9HT Tel: +44(0) 20 7479 4350 • Fax: +44 (0)20 7434 2526 • Web: http://www.thefoundry.co.uk The Foundry Visionmongers Ltd. Registered in England and Wales No: 4642027
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