[QScintilla] Strings with \0 charaters in it?

[Matic Kukovec]

>  >  On 25 Apr 2017, at 6:16 pm, Matic Kukovec <kukovecmatic at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > >  On 25 Apr 2017, at 5:08 pm, Matic Kukovec <kukovecmatic at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > >  >
>  >  > >  > Hi guys,
>  >  > >  >
>  >  > >  > I just noticed that when adding strings that contain null characters ('\0') using the setText method,
>  >  > >  > QScintilla cuts off the string at the first null character it finds. To be sure I opened the same text saved
>  >  > >  > to a file with Notepad++ and SciTE and there the null characters appear.
>  >  > >  >
>  >  > >  > Is this a bug or should strings with null characters be handled differently?
>  >  > >  > I used this example to for testing:
>  >  > >  > qscieditor.setText("Test\nText\nIn\n\0An\nQscintilla\nEditor")
>  >  > >
>  >  > >  Is that C++ or Python?
>  >  > >
>  >  > >  setText() uses the low-level Scintilla SCI_SETTEXT which accepts a '\0' string, ie. you will get the same result if you used Scintilla.
>  >  > >
>  >  > >  Phil
>  >  >
>  >  > Hi Phil,
>  >  >
>  >  > I'm using Python3 and before I tried setText and now I tried as you suggested:
>  >  > qscieditor.SendScintilla(SCI_SETTEXT, bytes("Test\nText\nIn\n\0An\nQscintilla\nEditor", encoding="ascii"))
>  >  > and I get the same result.
>  >  > I looked into the C++ setText method and it uses this line:
>  >  > SendScintilla(SCI_SETTEXT, ScintillaBytesConstData(textAsBytes(text)));
>  >  > Is there maybe an error in how the ScintillaBytesConstData or textAsBytes convert the text?
>  >  > I'm only guessing here.
>  >
>  >  You misunderstand. I was saying that the behaviour you see is the way Scintilla works.
>  >
>  >  Phil
>
>  Are you sure?
>  Then how do SciTE and Notepad++ do this without cutting off at the first '\0' character as they also use Scintilla?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Matic

Hey Phil,

In the attachment I added the test text file and the screenshots of how the SciTE opens the file and how a simple QScintilla editor opens the file. The code for the simple QScintilla editor is:
editor = PyQt5.Qsci.QsciScintilla()
editor.setMarginWidth(0, "00000")
text = open("test.txt", "r").read()
editor.setText(text)
How can I display the file in QScintilla the same as in SciTE?
I apologize if this is trivial or if not understanding something fundamental.

Thanks,
Matic

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