[Pythonmac-SIG] Python Unicode and NSString...

[Nicholas Riley]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:33:32AM +0200, whamoo wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> i'm at war with unicode python and cocoa, and seem that i cannot  
> win... =)
> 
> i've wrote this function:
> 
>     def makeNSString(self, oldString):
>         try:
>             oldString = NSString.stringWithUTF8String_(oldString)
>             return oldString
>         except Exception, e:
>             print Exception, e
>             return oldString
> 
> And it work, now in my app i have all the ?,?,?,? correctly written,  
> but it raise this exception each time:
> 
> exceptions.Exception depythonifying 'charptr', got 'unicode'
> 
> This is normal? what can i do? ;)

What are you trying to do?  If the string is already Unicode, PyObjC
will make it into a NSString for you.  If you want to encode a Unicode
string as UTF-8, then use oldString.encode('utf-8').

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