Special Characters

beecksche

Hi,
I changed from Qt 5.9.3 and Qt Creator 4.4.1 to Qt 5.10.0 and Qt 4.5.0.

Now special charaters in labels, etc. are not displayed correctly in the application.

If you need more informations, feel free to ask. Thanks!

Leonardo

Which platform?

beecksche

@Leonardo
Compiled and run on Windows 10.

SGaist

Hi,

Can you show a picture of what you get ?

A minimal sample application triggering that ?

beecksche

@SGaist

I wrote a little example and recognized, it only has effect of the text in a Button!

The source code:

import QtQuick 2.6
import QtQuick.Controls 2.1
//import QtQuick.Controls 2.3 // no change
import QtQuick.Window 2.2

Window {
    visible: true
    width: 400
    height: 150
    title: qsTr("Hello World")

    Column {
        anchors.fill: parent

        spacing: 20

        Text {
            anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
            text: qsTr("Qt 5.10.0")
//            text: qsTr("Qt 5.9.3")
        }

        Text {
            anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
            text: qsTr("Hello & Welcome")
        }

        Button  {
            anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
            text: qsTr("Hello & Welcome")
        }
    }
}

And the displayed windows, compiled with Qt5.10.0 and Qt5.9.3 (msvc 2013):

Leonardo

Based on your image, it looks like Qt 5.10 has introduced a new feature. When we set the label for a button in a native application, we use & to specify a shortcut. For example, "&Open" would be rendered as "Open" with the first "O" underlined, meaning that Alt+o is a shortcut for that button. In your case, after the & there's a space, which we can also see underlined. When that's not the desired behavior, we should escape the & character. Try "Hello \\& Welcome" or "Hello && Welcome".

beecksche

@Leonardo

Thanks for that information. You're right: in Qt5.10 they added thw QML type Action. The AbstractButton has in Qt 5.10 an Action with a shortcut.

So i changed the code to

import QtQuick 2.6
import QtQuick.Controls 2.3
import QtQuick.Window 2.2

Window {
    visible: true
    width: 400
    height: 150
    title: qsTr("Hello World")

    Column {
        anchors.fill: parent

        spacing: 20

        Text {
            anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
            text: qsTr("Qt 5.10.0")
        }

        Text {
            anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
            text: qsTr("Hello & Welcome")
        }

        ToolButton  {
            anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
            text: qsTr("Hello && Welcome")
        }
    }
}

and now it works fine.

Thanks a lot!