Re: Fwd: unicode symbols and whitespaces

Hi again.
attached is a minimal example to reproduce this:
It seems to happen only in combination with Culumn widgets.
There are two notable things with this example:
First, the length of the encoded string `problematic` is of course 3,
so the column will get displayed with fixed length 3, which is not what I want.
Secondly, if you comment out the .encode('utf-8') in line 4, the length of the string
becomes 1, and then urwid diverges before displaying anything.
/p

On Aug 17, Patrick Totzke wrote:
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>Hi!
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>I'm currently seing strange behaviour with Text widgets in combination with
>utf-8 and unicode strings:
>For certain symbols, like '颖', urwid craches when displaying them (stacktrace below).
>But if i encode this to utf08 before handing it to urwid.Text,
>Its length gets calculated falsely:
>>s=u'\u9896'.encode('utf-8')
>> len(s) = 3
>so I get two whitespaces after the symbol on my screen..
>Best,
>/p
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>   self.mainloop.run()