[SOLVED] Non-latin characters encoding

Klayman

Hi everyone!
I have Qt 5.3, WIn8.1 and source code in ANSI1251. So I have

QString fileName = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this, tr("Open File"), "", tr("Text Files (*.txt);;C++ Files (*.cpp *.h)"));

It works fine, if I open files with latin names or use the path, which contains only latin characters. But if I open file with non-latin characters in the name or in the path, I see something like that:

C:/HEC_GUI/СЃРєСЂРёРїС‚/RI5.ort.homog.txt

Any idea, how can I fix it?
I just need the correct path and the file name in QString.

Thanks for help.

mrjj

Hi
Are you sure they are messed up ?
QDebug might not display it correctly.

Try

QStringList files = QFileDialog::getOpenFileNames(/* ... */);
while(!files.isEmpty())
{
QMessageBox::information(this, tr("Test"), files.takeFirst());
}

as they talk about here
https://forum.qt.io/topic/22263/open-unicode-file-name-in-qt4-7/2

Klayman

Hi!
Thank you for your help. So the path looks correct in QMessageBox, but how can I pass this path into the function

void processFileScript(std::string filePath)

?

Now I have smth like that and it doesn't work:

QString file = QFileDialog::getOpenFileNames(/* ... */);
QMessageBox::information(this, tr("Test"), file);
processFileScript(file.toStdString());

So I still can't open this file.

mrjj

@Klayman said:
Hi
Have you tried to pass it as QString to processFileScript ?
and use QString in place of std::string.
Or use QString:: toStdWString()
and std::wstring.
I think you need full unicode for it to work and std::string works best with UTF-8 so
when you call toStdString, you break it. (I guess)

If you program processFileScript also, I would use QString and QFile and it should just work.

Chris Kawa

std::string is just storage (array of bytes). You need to know what encoding your processFileScript expects in that storage. The string returned by QString::toStdString is encoded using UTF-8. If your function expects something else you'll need another means of conversion. What encoding does the function expect?

Btw.

and it doesn't work

This is the least useful description of a problem on a programming forum you can give ;) Please try to be more specific ;)

Klayman

Hi, mrjj !
Thanks for your help!
I wrote processFileScript with QString instead of std::string and it works fine.

Klayman

Hi Chris!
I think it's CP1251. But anyway, it started to work when I change std:string to QString.
And thanks for your remark, I absolutely agree with you, it was useless expression =)