Not displaying Chinese characters

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.