Hi, I was expecting that GtkEntry text property can handle Unicode automatically, and return Unicode too, storing UTF-8 encoded gchar* in the middle. But seems to not be the case:
>>> from gi.repository import Gtk >>> entry = Gtk.Entry() >>> entry.props.text = u'coruña' >>> entry.props.text 'coru\xc3\xb1a' >>> type(entry.props.text) str Same happens using set_text() and get_text() methods instead of changing the property. >From IntrospectionPorting wiki page [1] this is one of the features of Overrides "Another important case is automatic data type conversion, most prominently to allow passing unicode objects to methods which expect an UTF-8 encoded gchar*. This also actually helps to prevent workarounds in application code and maintain a clean API". [1] https://live.gnome.org/PyGObject/IntrospectionPorting This unexpected behaviour was spotted in Sugar learning platform, and the proposed workaround we have is decode the string in UTF-8: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/2830/0001-Use-UNICODE-string-to-search-into-places-SL-2830.patch But we are not going to push the workaround if this is an upstream bug in pygobject. Is this the case? Thanks in advance, -- .. manuq .. _______________________________________________ python-hackers-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/python-hackers-list
