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List:       pykde
Subject:    Re: [PyKDE] Converting font names to python strings
From:       "Giovanni Bajo" <rasky () develer ! com>
Date:       2005-04-19 13:49:49
Message-ID: 0ab301c544e6$a773d400$bf03030a () trilan
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Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net> wrote:

> One of my users is having problems with my code. It looks like it might be
> to do with converting QStrings to Python strings if they are unicode:
>
> The code is:
>
>          db = qt.QFontDatabase()
>
>          # build a dict up with the list of families
>          families = {}
>          for i in db.families():
>              families[str(i)] = True
>
> This gives an exception:
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
> 0-6: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> I had assumed this would just work. Am I wrong? Any ideas???


You could use unicode(i) to convert QString to a Python unicode string.
Either that, or keep the QString. It pretty much depends on what you are
going to do with that families dict.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

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