--- ./scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/cmdgetsetprop.cpp.orig	2023-09-28 09:13:21.384565229 -0400
+++ ./scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/cmdgetsetprop.cpp	2023-09-28 09:21:08.298879558 -0400
@@ -409,10 +409,10 @@
 			success = obj->setProperty(propertyName, QString::fromUtf8(PyBytes_AsString(objValue)));
 		else if (PyUnicode_Check(objValue))
 		{
-			// Get a pointer to the internal buffer of the Py_Unicode object, which is UCS2 formatted
-			const unsigned short * ucs2Data = (const unsigned short *) PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(objValue);
-			// and make a new QString from it (the string is copied)
-			success = obj->setProperty(propertyName, QString::fromUtf16(ucs2Data));
+			// Get the data as a wchar_t array and copy to a QString
+			Py_ssize_t wcsize = 0;
+			const wchar_t * const wcdata = PyUnicode_AsWideCharString(objValue, &wcsize);
+			success = obj->setProperty(propertyName, QString::fromWCharArray(wcdata, wcsize));
 		}
 		else
 			matched = false;
@@ -429,10 +429,10 @@
 		}
 		else if (PyUnicode_Check(objValue))
 		{
-			// Get a pointer to the internal buffer of the Py_Unicode object, which is UCS2 formatted
-			const unsigned short * utf16Data = (const unsigned short *)PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(objValue);
-			// and make a new QString from it (the string is copied)
-			success = obj->setProperty(propertyName, QString::fromUtf16(utf16Data).toLatin1());
+			// Get the data as a wchar_t array and copy to a QString
+			Py_ssize_t wcsize = 0;
+			const wchar_t * const wcdata = PyUnicode_AsWideCharString(objValue, &wcsize);
+			success = obj->setProperty(propertyName, QString::fromWCharArray(wcdata, wcsize));
 		}
 		else
 			matched = false;
--- ./scribus/plugins/scriptplugin_py2x/cmdgetsetprop.cpp.orig	2023-09-28 09:13:07.372484278 -0400
+++ ./scribus/plugins/scriptplugin_py2x/cmdgetsetprop.cpp	2023-09-28 09:22:02.366125450 -0400
@@ -406,10 +406,10 @@
 			success = obj->setProperty(propertyName, QString::fromUtf8(PyString_AsString(objValue)));
 		else if (PyUnicode_Check(objValue))
 		{
-			// Get a pointer to the internal buffer of the Py_Unicode object, which is UCS2 formatted
-			const unsigned short * ucs2Data = (const unsigned short *)PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(objValue);
-			// and make a new QString from it (the string is copied)
-			success = obj->setProperty(propertyName, QString::fromUtf16(ucs2Data));
+			// Get the data as a wchar_t array and copy to a QString
+			Py_ssize_t wcsize = 0;
+			const wchar_t * const wcdata = PyUnicode_AsWideCharString(objValue, &wcsize);
+			success = obj->setProperty(propertyName, QString::fromWCharArray(wcdata, wcsize));
 		}
 		else
 			matched = false;
@@ -426,10 +426,10 @@
 		}
 		else if (PyUnicode_Check(objValue))
 		{
-			// Get a pointer to the internal buffer of the Py_Unicode object, which is UCS2 formatted
-			const unsigned short * utf16Data = (const unsigned short *)PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(objValue);
-			// and make a new QString from it (the string is copied)
-			success = obj->setProperty(propertyName, QString::fromUtf16(utf16Data).toLatin1());
+			// Get the data as a wchar_t array and copy to a QString
+			Py_ssize_t wcsize = 0;
+			const wchar_t * const wcdata = PyUnicode_AsWideCharString(objValue, &wcsize);
+			success = obj->setProperty(propertyName, QString::fromWCharArray(wcdata, wcsize));
 		}
 		else
 			matched = false;