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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Apr 30 11:12:32 CEST 2009

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

Yes, yes, and yes (IOW, I put the surrogate in the middle).

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

Only one, and it produced three boxes - probably one for each UTF-8 byte that pango considered invalid.

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

Again, only one. Apparently, PyQt passes the Python Unicode string to Qt in a character-by-character representation, rather than going through UTF-8.

Regards, Martin