How to read Japanese and Korean characters?

[harish__rajora]

I have a file whose name is in Japanese or Korean. I save that to QString but utf8() on it gives ???

Any solutions?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

qDebug() on your Windows console? Blame MS :)
Print them in a QMessageBox or QLabel.

[SGaist]

Hi,

Where do you see these question marks ?

[harish__rajora]

When I qDebug() I see these characters as question marks.
qDebug()<<fileName.toUtf8().data()

[Christian Ehrlicher]

qDebug() on your Windows console? Blame MS :)
Print them in a QMessageBox or QLabel.

[harish__rajora]

Yeah QMessageBox works fine.

What the hell. Is there any way possible?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@harish__rajora said in How to read Japanese and Korean characters?:

Is there any way possible?

No, the console can not print anything useful if you don't know the correct code page.

[harish__rajora]

If I read a folder whose name is in Japanese using QString. Now I need to convert this to char * to pass it to my other function. Can I do that?

[jsulm]

@harish__rajora Why do you need char*?

[harish__rajora]

I have a library that is not built by me by my company. I can't change that. It takes char * as input.

[jsulm]

@harish__rajora said in How to read Japanese and Korean characters?:

It takes char * as input

And what encoding does it expect? ASCII, UTF16, UTF8, ...?
For Japanese you have to use Unicode and that can't be represented in normal C ASCII string (char*).