How to use "windows-1252" charset ?

[Pufo]

I'm trying to read a .srt file which contains some diacritics. They are all ignored, like they don't exist.
If i try to create a QString with some of this characters, and them print them using qDebug or a QTextEdit, they are printed, along with a garbage character for each of my characters.

In Java, the solution would be this one:
@File file = new File(subName);
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, "windows-1252");@

Any suggestions ?

[soroush]

You may need to decode your binary data with a suitable encoder:
@
QFile f("path");
f.open(QFile::Text);
QByteArray data = f.readAll();
QTextDecoder* decoder = QTextCodec::codecForName("Windows-1252")->makeDecoder();
QString result = decoder->toUnicode(data,data.length());
// result contains standard unicode string
@

[Pufo]

Nice one. Now i have the content of the file.

The problem is that i can't find the diacritics to replace them with normal characters.
I've tried searching using indexOf.

I think because i can't store them properly, like i said in the first post.
How can i store this: {'þ','ã','Ã','ª','º','â','Î','î'} ?

[soroush]

Hmm...

There is no problem with indexOf to find characters in the string. Also you should be able to store any unicode string in a file. if you want to store your text with Windows-1252 encoding, you may need an encoder:
@
QTextEncoder* encoder = QTextCodec::codecForName("Windows-1250")->makeEncoder();
QByteArray outputData = encoder->fromUnicode(result);
@

[Pufo]

I didn't made myself clear.

After i read the entire .srt file, i want to correct it. I want to replace the diacritics ( from this range {‘þ’,‘ã’,‘Ã’,‘ª’,‘º’,‘â’,‘Î’,‘î’} ) with normal character.

In order to correct the data, i need to look for the diacritics.
To do that, i need them, stored in an array ( preferably ).

Look how i did things in Java a while ago:

@
char badArray [] = {'þ','ã','Ã','ª','º','â','Î','î'};
char goodArray [] = {'t','a','A','S','s','a','I','i'};

for (int i = 0; i < badArray.length ; i++) {

                                if (newLine.indexOf(badArray[i]) > -1) {
                                 
                                 newLine = newLine.replace(badArray[i], goodArray[i]);
                                
                                }       
 }@

I can't store ( properly ) that badArray. I get some garbage along with it.

[soroush]

I'm not sure but think characters like 'Ã' are wide characters (with 2 byte codes). If correct, you will have to use wide characters (wchar_t) or QChar instead of ordinary C++ character data type.
I don't know what exactly you want to do but think you should consider about using QString and QChar instead of char array. because they are unicode-aware.

[Pufo]

Yes, i've tried to store them in an QString or QChar, but they aren't stored properly.
Just try to store and print one of them, and see the garbage.

[soroush]

How did you store them in QChar array? I think you forgot to use wide characters. did you get a wide char constant warning?
Your code should look like this:
@
QChar badArray [] = {L'þ',L'ã',L'Ã',L'ª',L'º',L'â',L'Î',L'î'};
@

[Pufo]

I didn't even know that i must use wide chars.

Thanks you, for all your help :)