[pygtk] quoting text for markup

Walter Leibbrandt walter at translate.org.za
Thu Mar 19 16:59:35 WST 2009


Hi

Darren Hart wrote:
> When adding text with an & character to a cellrenderertext I get some
> rendering glitches (and the actual text doesn't get rendered at all).
> Is there a standard mechanism for quoting text destined for the markup
> property?
Since Pango markup strings are XML strings, you should also quote your 
markup strings as such. That means that an & should become &.

HTH,

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