Question

I am working on a project where Arabic language is used and I am using pyqt for the same.
There is a text box in which I enters in Arabic then take that Arabic in a variable and read it using python. I have tried using UTF-8 as well but didn’t worked.

For example I am entering

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

in the text box but when I read content of that box, I get the variable something as:

???? ????? ????

If I do not use the Unicode, then it gives me error as

ASCII code cannot encode characters.

How get same print variable in Arabic as entered in box ?

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code is :

    item=dir(self.listWidget.selectedItems())
    item=self.listWidget.currentItem()
    content=self.textEdit.toPlainText()
    content = unicode(content, "utf-8")
    FROMADDR = ""
    LOGIN = FROMADDR
    PASSWORD = ""
    TOADDRS = str(item.text())
    SUBJECT = "Invitation"


    msg = ("From: %s\r\nTo: %s\r\nSubject: %s\r\n\r\n"
    % (FROMADDR, ", ".join(TOADDRS), SUBJECT) )
    msg += ((u"%s")%content)#"some text\r\n" 
    server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
    server.set_debuglevel(1)
    server.ehlo()
    server.starttls()
    server.login(LOGIN, PASSWORD)
    server.sendmail(FROMADDR, TOADDRS, msg)
    server.quit()

Answer 1

Use the appropriate email package classes to ensure the encoding is done properly:

from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.header import Header
...

LOGIN = ''
PASSWORD = ''
SUBJECT = u'Invitation'
FROMADDR = u''
TOADDRS = unicode(self.listWidget.currentItem().text())
CONTENT = unicode(self.textEdit.toPlainText())

encoding = 'utf-8'

msg = MIMEText(CONTENT, 'plain', encoding)
msg['Subject'] = Header(SUBJECT, encoding)
msg['From'] = Header(FROMADDR, encoding)
msg['To'] = Header(TOADDRS, encoding)

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.set_debuglevel(1)
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
server.login(LOGIN, PASSWORD)
server.sendmail(FROMADDR, [TOADDRS], msg.as_string())
server.quit()