Thanks. I tried looking up ellipsis on the internet and came up with the \U equivalent of the \N below which worked.
I had the ellipsis copied and pasted from Microsoft word into a "" string and that seemed to be the problem. P -----Original Message----- From: Phil Thompson [mailto:p...@riverbankcomputing.com] Sent: 29 July 2011 6:33pm To: Protopia Cc: pyqt@riverbankcomputing.com Subject: Re: [PyQt] Displaying . in a tableitem On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:49:26 +0100, "Protopia" <py...@protopia.co.uk> wrote: > I am trying to display . (i.e. not the three characters dot dot dot but > the single character dotdotdot) in a tableitem, but is doesn't display. > > > > Is there something I need to set or a string conversion I need to do to > make this work? The following works for me... import sys from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication, QListWidget, QListWidgetItem app = QApplication(sys.argv) lw = QListWidget() QListWidgetItem(u"\N{horizontal ellipsis}", lw) lw.show() app.exec_() Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
