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Goerman
Asked: 2020-02-20 06:21:25 +0800 CST 2020-02-20 06:21:25 +0800 CST

Encode/decode special characters (tildes, ñ) in python-gimp

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I've written a python function to simulate the effect of typing on a GIF , which works except for special characters like tildes and eñes.

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Function

def efecto_escritura(x, y, color,texto):
    texto_completo = texto
    ultimo_texto=''
    imagen_inicial = gimp.image_list()[0]    
    #Color del texto 
    gimp.set_foreground(color)

    # Parámetros Fuente
    fontname= 'Sans' #Tipo de letra
    size_type=PIXELS 
    size= 30 #Tamaño
    antialias = True
    border = 0
    #y = 0 
    #x = 0 
    drawable = None
    image = imagen_inicial    
    for i in texto_completo:
        ultimo_texto=ultimo_texto+i
        layer = pdb.gimp_text_fontname(image, drawable, x, y, ultimo_texto, border, antialias, size, size_type, fontname)
        print(ultimo_texto)

Use

Run in GIMP's "Python Console"

efecto_escritura(58,209,(255, 255, 255), 'Stackoverflow en español')

Error message

Calling error for procedure 'gimp-text-fontname': Procedure 'gimp-text-fontname' has been called with value 'Stackoverflow en espaÃ' for argument 'text' (#5, type gchararray). This value is out of range.

Ambient

OS: Windows 10

Python-GIMP:

print(sys.version)
2.7.10 (default, May 23 2015, 09:40:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
python

2 Answers

  1. If the GIMP console handles UTF-8 characters well, using the Unicode literal will suffice . That is, instead of doing this:

    efecto_escritura(58,209,(255, 255, 255), 'Stackoverflow en español')

    Simply change it to this:

    efecto_escritura(58,209,(255, 255, 255), u'Stackoverflow en español')

    The difference is in the ufront of the quotes.

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  2. Best Answer

    1) Encode:

    texto_completo = texto.encode('utf-8')

    2) Decode

    texto_completo.decode('utf-8')

    Reference: https://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html

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