[itombs]

Im going mad...
I have a big trouble working with strings with special caracters.
An example of my problem:

Code:

list.append("Exámple")  
        seleccion= xbmcgui.Dialog()
        number= seleccion.select(selecciona,list)
    

name = list[number]

Code:

print name

=

Exámple

Code:

self.functionExample(name)

Code:

def functionExample(self,n):
if n=="Exámple":
print "WORKS WELL"

Problem is n == Exámple returns FALSE but n=Exámple and print n prints Exámple.


I know problem is the special caracter "á" and i tried to encode and decode to utf-8 the variable name.
If i try:

Code:

name=name.encode("utf-8")

ascii' codec can't decode byte in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

name=name.decode("utf-8")
utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position  : invalid data

I have a seriuos problem with codification, i need help with this.
Another problem (but i think is the same problem with the same solution) is when I have a label and i setLabel a word with especial caracter, if i only set the variable with special caracter, lableel shows perfect. Example:

Code:

self.getControl(self.lbl_example).setLabel(name)
lbl_example shows Exámple

BUT

self.getControl(self.lbl_example).setLabel("The name is %s",%(name))
lbl_example shows The name is  Ex/..mple

My scraper have the line # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- on top.
Im going mad with this problem....


Anyone could help me please??

Thanks in advance.

[ppic]

see the convert.py lib made by frostbox you'll find it in most of my plugins.

[spbogie]

If name is actually of type "unicode" then you should be able to make that comparison work by prefixing "Exámple" with a u (i.e. u"Exámple").

[itombs]

see the convert.py lib made by frostbox you'll find it in most of my plugins.

Thanks a lot, i have the convert.py from one of yours plugin but I only be able to convert Exámple to Example using translate_string function. I want to compare a variable type string with a special caracter WITH a string with a special caracter.
Can you help me?
Then, I want to be able to show in a label a text and the variable with the special caracter.

If name is actually of type "unicode" then you should be able to make that comparison work by prefixing "Exámple" with a u (i.e. u"Exámple").

Thanks but:
if name==u"Exámple":

doesnt work, error script.

[itombs]

Somebody to help me?
Thanks

[ppic]

have you tried with setEntityOfCharset in same lib?

for your comparison, you can convert both side, convert will work the same for both so comparison should be ok.