[Paraview] Dodgy Characters in XML/Python causing failure

[Biddiscombe, John A.]

using pv 3.12 I cannot save state files correctly, and generation of coprocessing scripts also fails because somehow - non ascii (UTF-8) -- characters are getting into strings.

      <Property name="ActiveScalars" id="495.ActiveScalars" number_of_elements="5">
        <Element index="0" value="3"/>
        <Element index="1" value=""/>
        <Element index="2" value=""/>
        <Element index="3" value="ÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝ"/>
        <Element index="4" value="Not available"/>
        <Domain name="array_list" id="495.ActiveScalars.array_list">
          <String text="Not available"/>
          <String text="bfield"/>
	.....

The index 3 should read "bfield" - but instead comes out as above. 

I suspect this is an issue caused by Qt. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, what was the correct (or fastest) fix. The reason I suspect Qt is because any calls to qString::ToStdString() in my code always fail and I have to use toLatin or something and I suspect I've compiled Qt with a wrong option.

thanks

JB



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