unicode and os.system

[Dumbkiwi]

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:11:48 -0700, Erik Max Francis wrote:

> Dumbkiwi wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone help me to work through this issue?  I'm a bit lost as to where
>> to start.
> 
> If you want to convert it to UTF-8, then do so with
> 
> 	u.decode('utf-8')

I've tried that previously, and get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/matt/karamba/lwbkup/liquid_weather.py", line 2765, in initWidget
    os.system('dcop kxdocker docker addIcon Current %s "%s : %s" /dev/null GIcon lwp none none none none' %(icopath, QString(situtext.decode('utf-8'), weather.temperature()))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in
position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

Thanks for responding though.

Matt