[Python-Dev] PEP 383 and GUI libraries (original) (raw)

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Thu Apr 30 10:55:12 CEST 2009

On approximately 4/30/2009 1:48 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Martin v. Löwis:

I checked how GUI libraries deal with half surrogates. In pygtk, a warning gets issued to the console

/tmp/helloworld.py:71: PangoWarning: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pangolayoutsettext() self.window.show() and then the widget contains three crossed boxes. wxpython (in its wxgtk version) behaves the same way. PyQt displays a single square box.

Interesting.

Did you use a name with other characters? Were they displayed? Both before and after the surrogates?

Did you use one or three half surrogates, to produce the three crossed boxes?

Did you use one or three half surrogates, to produce the single square box?

-- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/

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