QString shows garbage characeter

neel2818

Hi All,

I am reading the following text from the text file and setText that string to label i am reading the text into QString and after reading i am setting the text. It is showing garbage character after applying the setText.

Below is my code.

@QFile file("C:/Users/my/Desktop/Issues.txt");

if (!file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text&#41;&#41; {
        return;
}

QString line(file.readLine());    
label->setText(line);
file.close();@

###############################
Below is the file content.

TEMP (°C)
###############################

But the same code if i do label->setText("TEMP (°C)") then is working fine.

Output of the above code is garbage character when we read the content from file ?
Here ° (celcius) character is displayed but garbage character will come. Is there any reason why garbage character is coming when we reading the this special character (not entered through keypad) ?

Thanks,
Neel

lycis

It's very likely that this is because of the file encoding. Maybe the file content is not encdoded in ASCII but in UTF-8 or some other encoding.

Maybe it is sufficient to call "QString::toAscii()":http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/4.8/qstring.html#toAscii to convert the QString to a usable format.

d2uriel

If that's not going to do the trick try using "QTextStream":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qtextstream.html for reading and set the appropriate text codec.

neel2818

I also tried with below conversion to UTF-8

QTextCodec::setCodecForCStrings(QTextCodec::codecForName("UTF-8"));

But it didn't help me. It showing garbage character (question mark symbol for every character).

lycis

Are you sure that the file content is stored as UTF-88? Did you try to use a QTextStream for accessing the data?

Especially when using special characters (e.g. everything un-ASCII) it is important to use the correct character encoding.

neel2818

I have tried with QTextStream also. Below is the code.

@FILE *fp;
fp = fopen("C:/Users/my/Desktop/Issues.txt","r");

QTextStream stream(fp);
QString line;
line = stream.readLine();

label->setText(line);@

d2uriel

In the above code you didn't set the codec. Try doing that!

neel2818

Now it is showing the correct string. But following is my observation.

when i write the below code then characters are displaying garbage and when i comment below code then characters are displaying correctly.

@QTextCodec *codec = QTextCodec::codecForName("UTF-8");
QTextCodec::setCodecForCStrings(codec);
QTextCodec::setCodecForTr(codec);@

Can you please tell me why this strange behaviour happens ?

d2uriel

You need to post some more also the context of the code you posted. So give us more lines of your code so we can see what are you doing before and after this little snippet.

neel2818

I got the issue. One application written the file in ANSI format that is why it is not able to decode it.
Anyway thanks for your support.

One more thing i want to know is if i already had applied codec for UTF-8 and if i want to apply the codec for another ISO then can i apply two times after one already set ?

@
QTextCodec *codec = QTextCodec::codecForName("UTF-8");
QTextCodec::setCodecForCStrings(codec);
QTextCodec::setCodecForTr(codec);
@

after above code i want to apply same with ISO type. can i set ? i am not able to set ? How to do that ?