how to show Chinese Characters via wx.ShowTip()?

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Hi everyone,

There is a ShowTip() method (see the code below ) in main.py in wxpython demo examples. The ShowTip() gives me “blank” message after I insert some new messages in Chinese into the file: data/tips.txt like:

1¸ÃϵͳÔËÐгɹ¦
2¸ÃϵͳÔËÐгɹ¦
3¸ÃϵͳÔËÐгɹ¦

I have added “# -- coding:gb2312 --” at top of the main.py and this works for such “frame = wxPythonDemo(None, u"´¬²°Í£¿¿Ïµ²´ÐÅÏ¢¼à²âϵͳ”)" but not for ShowTip() here:

def ShowTip(self):
try:
showTipText = open(opj(“data/showTips”)).read()
showTip, index = eval(showTipText)
except
IOError:
showTip, index = (1, 0)
if showTip:
tp = wx.CreateFileTipProvider(opj(“data/tips.txt”), index)
showTip = wx.ShowTip(self, tp)
index = tp.GetCurrentTip()
open(opj(“data/showTips”), “w”).write(str( (showTip, index) ))

Anybody knows what is going on with it? Thank you very much for your help in advance.

OUyang

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zxo102 wrote:

Hi everyone,
  There is a ShowTip() method (see the code below ) in main.py in wxpython demo examples. The ShowTip() gives me "blank" message after I insert some new messages in Chinese into the file: data/tips.txt like:
1¸ÃϵͳÔËÐгɹ¦
2¸ÃϵͳÔËÐгɹ¦
3¸ÃϵͳÔËÐгɹ¦
I have added "# -*- coding:gb2312 -*-" at top of the main.py and this works for such "frame = wxPythonDemo(None, u"´¬²°Í£¿¿Ïµ²´ÐÅÏ¢¼à²âϵͳ")" but not for ShowTip() here:

The default file tip provider doesn't do anything special for the encodings, so I think it is always going to assume that the file is in whatever it detects is the default system encoding. Probably the easiest way to handle this is to create your own tip provider class that returns whatever text you want. Just derive a class from wx.PyTipProvider and give it a GetTip method that returns a string or unicode value (depending on which type of wxPython you have.)

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