prats wrote: > I think I could not make myself clear. On the contrary. You've given enough information for me to do what you want: decoding your text and displaying it in a GUI. The fact that I used another GUI is not important, read below why.
> I have a GUI written in Python > and Qt and PyQt as the python wrappper fro QT. Now I have a string > which is base64 encoded. This string contains both japanese and english > charaters. I need to decode them and display them properly in the GUI > ie. with both english and japanese characters. > I need a way to display them. Qt doc says that QStrings are capable of > displaying all characters. (nitpick: not displaying but holding) And so is capable Python unicode string. It was introduced more than 5 years ago if my memory serves me right. It is the recommeded way to hold non-ascii characters in Python and all toolkits are expected to play nice with it. I would be really surprised if PyQt doesn't work with it. > So I need a way to get a QString from the > base64 encoded string. Why don't you try to use unicode? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
