Encoding in QProcess output

[LeLev]

Hi,
I run a .bat script using QProcess and get its output but there is character encoding issues
ex : i got '?' instead of 'é'

        process = new QProcess(this);
        process->start(PROSS, QStringList() << "/k" << "title" << "checking..."); 

        QObject::connect(process,&QProcess::errorOccurred,process,[&](const QProcess::ProcessError &error){
            qDebug()<<process->errorString();
        });

        QObject::connect(process,&QProcess::readyReadStandardOutput,process,[&](){
            QString output(process->readAllStandardOutput());
            //output = output.toUtf8();
            QStringList lines = output.split("\\r\\n");
            QStringListIterator it(lines);
            while(it.hasNext()){
               qDebug() << it.next().toLocal8Bit().constData()<< endl;
            }
        });

How to get proper output please ?

[LeLev]

if i run my windows terminal directly and execute

ipconfig/all >> text.txt

it creates a text file with lot of encoding issues also.

Opening that file in Notepad++ and testing different encodings does not help
is this a problem that is more related to windoz terminal itself maybe ?

[jsulm]

@LeLev Did you try

qDebug() << it.next() << endl;

?

[KroMignon]

@LeLev I think it would be better to get message this way:

QString output = QString::fromLocal8Bit(process->readAllStandardOutput());

[LeLev]

@jsulm yes, but got same
@KroMignon i also tryed
QString output = QString::fromLocal8Bit(process->readAllStandardOutput());
but still same output

[jsulm]

@LeLev Try with std::cout instead of qDebug()

[KroMignon]

@LeLev Other thing I can suggest is to use qUtf8Printable()

 QObject::connect(process,&QProcess::readyReadStandardOutput,process,[&](){
            QString output = QString::fromLocal8Bit(process->readAllStandardOutput());
            QStringList lines = output.split("\\r\\n");
            QStringListIterator it(lines);
            while(it.hasNext()){
               qDebug() << qUtf8Printable(it.next())<< endl;
            }
        });

[LeLev]

@jsulm i have never used it with Qt,i will try?My final aim is to write the output to a file.

[aha_1980]

@LeLev said in Encoding in QProcess output:

process->readAllStandardOutput())

To debug this, I'd suggest to print the output as hex:

qDebug() << process->readAllStandardOutput().toHex();

Then you need to find then code for 'é', which allows you to find the encoding used by your system. It may well be local 8 bit, UTF-8 or any of the encodings we used in the 1990. Before you don't know the exact codec, you cannot properly convert the output to a QString and therefore you cannot print it.

Regards

[LeLev]

@KroMignon unfortunately the output is almost the same,.. i had :
? in place of é
now i have
, in place of é

[VRonin]

@LeLev said in Encoding in QProcess output:

My final aim is to write the output to a file.

Do you need to change encoding between reading and writing? if the answer is no you can just simply:

 QObject::connect(process,&QProcess::readyReadStandardOutput,process,[=](){
QFile outputLog("outputLog.txt");
if(!outputLog.open(QIODevice::Append | QIODevice::Text))
return;
outputLog.write(process->readAllStandardOutput());
});

[LeLev]

@VRonin no i don't neet to change, i only want the output of command
ipconfig /all
inside a new file.
but sadly there is still issues in the file (outputLog.txt)..

I will try do debug this using what @aha_1980 said. On Monday. This is first time Qt, windows and coding pissed me off for real.

Thank you very much for help anyway

[Pablo J. Rogina]

@LeLev said in Encoding in QProcess output:

if i run my windows terminal directly and execute
ipconfig/all >> text.txt
it creates a text file with lot of encoding issues also.

Given that, should you set the proper encoding for the command line? See this post as it may help...

[LeLev]

@Pablo-J.-Rogina said in Encoding in QProcess output:

may help...

not realy ..

i tryed

REG ADD HKCU\Console /v CodePage /t REG_DWORD /d 0xfde9

failed, then :

Now we need to add a TT font that supports the characters you need like Courier New, we do this by adding zeros to the string name, so in this case the next one would be "000" :

    REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont" /v 000 /t REG_SZ /d "Courier New"
Now we implement UTF-8 support:

    REG ADD HKCU\Console /v CodePage /t REG_DWORD /d 65001 /f
Set default font to "Courier New":

    REG ADD HKCU\Console /v FaceName /t REG_SZ /d "Courier New" /f
Set font size to 20 :

    REG ADD HKCU\Console /v FontSize /t REG_DWORD /d 20 /f

failed, then :

Save the following into a file with ".reg" suffix and execute

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console\%SystemRoot%_system32_cmd.exe]
"CodePage"=dword:0000fde9

now if i open my terminal (cmd.exe) it will close instantly : any idea why ?

[LeLev]

actually if i run cmd like this :
cmd /K chcp 65001
it will not close instantly and output is correct now.
So kind of solved, but broked "normal openning".. also if i type somethig wrong in it, i dont have error message, instead it closed immediatly