[maemo-developers] problem with python, gtk and utf8

[From: peltsip at gmail.com]

Hi!

I am having a problem with dict(?!?)
the code starts with:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

and the dict(?!?) is like this:
letters = {}
            letters['1'] = ['', '.', ',', '?', '!', '1', '@', '-', '_', '(', ')', ':', ';', '&', '%', '*', '#', '+', '<', '=', '>', '$', '£', '§', '¥']
            letters['2'] = ['', 'a', 'b', 'c', '2', 'å', u'ä']

etc.

and the appropriate char from that is written with:
self.message_buffer.set_text(updatedtext)

everything works perfectly until it is turn for ä to appear (to be written with set text above). after that there is a error:
GtkWarning: gtk_text_buffer_emit_insert: assertion `g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed


does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?

whole source can be found at gitorious if needed (except char ä etc)
http://gitorious.org/vertsms

any help is appreciated!

Ossipena / TimoP