Draft: Fix Unicode and UTF-8 encoding character behavior

src/Mod/Draft/DraftGui.py

@@ -1740,7 +1740,11 @@ class DraftToolBar:
         """this function sends the entered text to the active draft command
         if enter has been pressed twice. Otherwise it blanks the line.
         """
-        self.sourceCmd.text = self.textValue.toPlainText().splitlines()
+        self.sourceCmd.text = self.textValue.toPlainText()\
+            .replace("\\","\\\\")\
+            .replace("\"","\\\"")\
+            .replace("\'","\\\'")\
+            .splitlines()
         self.sourceCmd.createObject()
 
     def displayPoint(self, point=None, last=None, plane=None, mask=None):

src/Mod/Draft/draftguitools/gui_texts.py

@@ -86,19 +86,16 @@ class Text(gui_base_original.Creator):
     def createObject(self):
         """Create the actual object in the current document."""
         text_list = self.text
-        text_list = [text.replace("\"","\\\"") for text in text_list]
+
+        if not text_list:
+            self.finish()
+            return None
 
         # If the last element is an empty string "" we remove it
         if not text_list[-1]:
             text_list.pop()
 
-        # For Python 2 we convert the string to unicode,
-        # Python 3 nothing needs to be done
-        if sys.version_info.major < 3:
-            u_list = [unicode(line) for line in text_list]
-            t_list = ['"' + str(line.encode("utf8")) + '"' for line in u_list]
-        else:
-            t_list = ['"' + line + '"' for line in text_list]
+        t_list = ['"' + line + '"' for line in text_list]
 
         list_as_text = ", ".join(t_list)
 

src/Mod/Draft/draftviewproviders/view_label.py

@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ class ViewProviderLabel(ViewProviderDraftAnnotation):
         self.text2d.string = self.text3d.string = "Label"
         self.text2d.justification = coin.SoText2.RIGHT
         self.text3d.justification = coin.SoAsciiText.RIGHT
+        self.font.name = utils.get_param("textfont")
 
         switchnode = coin.SoSeparator()
         switchnode.addChild(self.line)
@@ -310,10 +311,7 @@ class ViewProviderLabel(ViewProviderDraftAnnotation):
             self.text2d.string.setValue("")
             self.text3d.string.setValue("")
 
-            if sys.version_info.major >= 3:
-                _list = [l for l in obj.Text if l]
-            else:
-                _list = [l.encode("utf8") for l in obj.Text if l]
+            _list = [l for l in obj.Text if l]
 
             self.text2d.string.setValues(_list)
             self.text3d.string.setValues(_list)

src/Mod/Draft/draftviewproviders/view_text.py

@@ -245,9 +245,13 @@ class ViewProviderText(ViewProviderDraftAnnotation):
 
     def createObject(self):
 
+        import FreeCAD
         import FreeCADGui
         if hasattr(self,"Object"):
-            txt = [t.replace("\"","\\\"") for t in self.text]
+            txt = self.text
+            if not txt:
+                self.finish()
+                return None
             # If the last element is an empty string "" we remove it
             if not txt[-1]:
                 txt.pop()