Coding errors when moving the application

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I am porting an application from linux to windows. Changing the encoding from utf-8 to windows-1250 doesn't help event.keyval which reports the following message for Polish letters:

character_e = event.string UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb3 in position 0: invalid start byte

the event is for the character 'ł' etc which mingw64 interprets as utf-8 (?)

no need to change it from utf-8 to windows 1250, just use utf-8 — Dean Van Greunen, Jan 22 '22 at 18:16
I understand. However, the error still occurs: does not recognize the Polish characters "ł, ó, ź" presenting the message as above. I have no ideas. — Roman Nowak, Jan 22 '22 at 18:40

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '22 at 19:43

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According to the documentation, event.keyval is not a string or character. It is an integer (guint to be precise), see here.

You should probably use the GDK function gdk_keyval_to_unicode to convert it. In Python that should be Gdk.keyval_to_unicode. It takes one parameter; the keyval. Like this:

character = Gdk.keyval_to_unicode(event.keyval)

answered Jan 22 '22 at 19:43

Roland Smith

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It works as it should. For conversia I used var = chr(character). Thanks – Roman Nowak Jan 23 '22 at 12:48

Coding errors when moving the application

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