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

[From: Thomas Perl]

Hi!

2010/10/3  <peltsip at gmail.com>:
> and the dict(?!?) is like this:
> letters = {}
>            letters['1'] = ['', '.', ',', '?', '!', '1', '@', '-', '_', '(', ')', ':', ';', '&', '%', '*', '#', '+', '<', '=', '>', '$', '£', '§', '¥']
>            letters['2'] = ['', 'a', 'b', 'c', '2', 'å', u'ä']
> [...]
> and the appropriate char from that is written with:
> self.message_buffer.set_text(updatedtext)

Can you construct a minimal example that demonstrates the bug? Maybe
you're mixing str objects with unicode objects? What happens if you
use 'ä' (a str with utf-8 as encoding) instead of u'ä' (a unicode
object representing 'ä') in that code? What is the class of
"self.message_object", and how do you compose "updatedtext"? What does
repr(updatedtext) give when printed before the affected line? If it's
a gtk.TextBuffer, maybe you want to use
self.message_buffer.insert(self.message_buffer.get_end_iter(),
new_char) or self.message_buffer.insert_at_cursor(new_char) instead?

HTH.
Thomas