How can I write characters like "é", "ã" on Qt Creator?

KireRex

I speak Portuguese and I need to write characters like "é" or "ã" (I don't know how they are called in English), but when I try to type them in Qt Creator, it goes like " 'e " or "~a". Anyone knows how can I type those kind of characters?
Sory for the bad English.

p3c0

Copy pasting those characters would work. But that would be tedious. If you set the keyboard layout as per your launguage then i guess those will get typed properly in QtCreator.

giesbert

I think, you have to tell creator in which format he should store his files (utf8, etc.). Not each compiler / IDE understand such characters otherwise...

KireRex

And how I do this?

NicuPopescu

Tools->Options->Text Editor->Behaviour->File Encodings

... but utf-8 is the default one, so you should be allowed to type characters with diacritical marks

KireRex

It's already utf-8, but I still cant type characters with diacritical marks.

SGaist

Hi,

What version of Qt Creator are you using ?

ChrisW67

And what platform? This could be X11 mangling things before they get to Qt Creator

KireRex

Qt Creator 2.7.0 on Ubuntu 13.04. I have already used Geany and the text editor to type programs, but Qt Creator was the first one to present this "problem".

tobias.hunger

Try using the stand-alone Qt Creator 2.8 packages. Those are built against Qt 4. If that shows the same problem, then please check the bug tracker for issues in Qt 5 with combining marks (or file a new bug if none is there yet).

john_god

Hi
I'm portuguese, and my QtCreator 2.8.1, 64bits works just fine, in Linux Caixa Magica 20 (ubuntu based). I'm using PT language in my system.