[Gramps-devel] Question about string conversion after translation

[Peter L. <pet...@te...>]

If I run this code with Swedish (or other non English) locale I get:
q1 = _('unknown')
q2 = _(u'unknown')
print type(q1), len(q1), q1
print type(q2), len(q2), q2
print q1 == q2

<type 'str'> 6 okänd
<type 'str'> 6 okänd
True

However, if I run with English locale I get:
<type 'str'> 7 unknown
<type 'unicode'> 7 unknown
True

So the translation process changes the type of the q2 string
from unicode, as it is by definition, to 'str'

I think this is the reason why we many times must call unicode()
to get the correct result. 
See issue http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=3480
for the latest example.

Could this cause other errors too?

/Peter