Not displaying Chinese characters

vdevadass

Hi
Update: if i set the font manually, i can see chinese but if i add it using addApplicationFont(), Qt does not pick it up. I want the application to support mulitple language in different font families automatically, any way to do this? And does this have something to do with fontconfig??

SGaist

What do you mean by "set the font manually" ?

How would your application support multiple languages ?

vdevadass

Hi, sorry for the late reply.
i set NanumGothic as default font using setFont(). Hence, I think maybe my embedded qt doesnt know NanumGothic is present.

i have another question, i copied the ttf files to the embedded devices, is that the proper way or is there way to install the font in the embedded device? ( i don't know what installing a font means, i saw it across the web, if you can explain it would be helpful)

SGaist

Did you check the return values of your font setup code ?

vdevadass

The application chooses DejaVuSans.

SGaist

Hence my question, did you check the return value of addApplicationFont ?

vdevadass

The return of addApplicationFont() is 0 for /usr/lib/fonts/NanumGothic.ttf

SGaist

And how are you selecting and setting that font in your application ?

vdevadass

QFont font("/usr/lib/fonts/NanumGothic.ttf");
font.setPointSize(FONT_SIZE);
font.setBold(true);
QApplication::setFont(font);

SGaist

QFont doesn't have any constructor that takes a file path.

vdevadass

Hi,

The chinese characters are being displayed on the target, but i didn't change my code, this has me stumped, unable to figure out why it is being displayed out of the blue?!
Anyway thank you SGaist for all your help :) I will close this thread for now

vdevadass

Update, it seems that the fontconfig was choosing NanumBrush and NanumPen over NanumGothic, hence i was unable to see the Chinese characters previously.