Re: [pygtk] problem pasting clipboard content from arabic website (target text/html)

2011-01-12 Thread Giuseppe Penone
It helped thank you, the first hexs being 0xfffe or 0xfeff indicate utf-16. regards, Giuseppe. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 16:03, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > > Yes it's mozilla firefox. > > I tried with > > > > input_string.decode("utf-16", "ig

Re: [pygtk] problem pasting clipboard content from arabic website (target text/html)

2011-01-12 Thread Giuseppe Penone
Great help, thank you very much. Regards, Giuseppe. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Dieter Verfaillie < diet...@optionexplicit.be> wrote: > On 12/01/2011 16:24, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > > Yes I also was thinking that, being the first two chars not valid (\0xff > and > > \0xfe) > > That would be

Re: [pygtk] problem pasting clipboard content from arabic website (target text/html)

2011-01-12 Thread Dieter Verfaillie
On 12/01/2011 16:24, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > Yes I also was thinking that, being the first two chars not valid (\0xff and > \0xfe) That would be the BOM (Byte Order Mark)... , the problem is that I cannot find a reference to understand what is > the encoding according to those chars. ... for UT

Re: [pygtk] problem pasting clipboard content from arabic website (target text/html)

2011-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 16:03, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > Yes it's mozilla firefox. > I tried with > > input_string.decode("utf-16", "ignore") Reading this code helped me with fixing interoperability between Sugar and Mozilla, but was a long time ago and don't remember the details: http://mxr.mozi

Re: [pygtk] problem pasting clipboard content from arabic website (target text/html)

2011-01-12 Thread Giuseppe Penone
Yes I also was thinking that, being the first two chars not valid (\0xff and \0xfe), the problem is that I cannot find a reference to understand what is the encoding according to those chars. Looking on the html of the webpage it tells utf-8 but probably then firefox uses another to fill the clipbo

Re: [pygtk] problem pasting clipboard content from arabic website (target text/html)

2011-01-12 Thread Dieter Verfaillie
On 12/01/2011 16:03, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > Yes it's mozilla firefox. > I tried with > > input_string.decode("utf-16", "ignore") > > but what I get is > > 猼慰瑳汹㵥昢湯⵴楳敺›㌱┰∻㰾灳湡猠祴敬∽潣潬㩲爠摥∻㰾灳湡猠祴敬∽潣潬㩲戠慬正∻䐾㑅䡇‱❈ㅄ☧‹䥁✠❄⼵ㄧ✠ⱄ䨯 > 䔪✠䐵ⴧ⠠㘹✠㥄䑄䠠䔪㤠䑅⼼灳湡㰾猯慰㹮⼼灳湡 Never had a need for it myself, but I've stumbled ove

Re: [pygtk] problem pasting clipboard content from arabic website (target text/html)

2011-01-12 Thread Giuseppe Penone
Yes it's mozilla firefox. I tried with input_string.decode("utf-16", "ignore") but what I get is 猼慰瑳汹㵥昢湯⵴楳敺›㌱┰∻㰾灳湡猠祴敬∽潣潬㩲爠摥∻㰾灳湡猠祴敬∽潣潬㩲戠慬正∻䐾㑅䡇‱❈ㅄ☧‹䥁✠❄⼵ㄧ✠ⱄ䨯 䔪✠䐵ⴧ⠠㘹✠㥄䑄䠠䔪㤠䑅⼼灳湡㰾猯慰㹮⼼灳湡 Regards, Giuseppe. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 13:34, Giusep

Re: [pygtk] problem pasting clipboard content from arabic website (target text/html)

2011-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 13:34, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > Hi, > I have a problem with gtk.clipboard() and gtk.selectiondata() in my open > source app http://giuspen.com/cherrytree > when pasting clipboard content from arabic website taking data from the > target "text/html". What browser is it? I t

[pygtk] problem pasting clipboard content from arabic website (target text/html)

2011-01-12 Thread Giuseppe Penone
Hi, I have a problem with gtk.clipboard() and gtk.selectiondata() in my open source app http://giuspen.com/cherrytree when pasting clipboard content from arabic website taking data from the target "text/html". when printing the selectiondata.data I can see that the content is: (print to terminal)