I made a small mistake above :S
The correct line (as proposed in IRC by tsimpson) is
QtCore.QTextCodec.setCodecForCStrings(QtCore.QTextCodec.codecForName("utf8"))
I made a small mistake above :S
The correct line (as proposed in IRC by tsimpson) is
QtCore. QTextCodec. setCodecForCStr ings(QtCore. QTextCodec. codecForName( "utf8") )