[SOLVED] - QString and encoding (UTF-8)

[maximus]

Hi,

I'm creating an object that has multiple QString, I would like them to support UTF-8 character (for example Chinese, russian, etc.)

I have a web service that returns some database field as utf-8 (xml file with utf-8 format)
Here is a real example:
http://maximumtrainer.com/phprestsql/?username=max3&password=123&lang=fr&getUser=1
Check for <first_name> and <last_name> for example of UTF-8 varchar

When I am parsing this xml in QT, the chinese and russian character show as ???? instead of the real value, I have tested with french character (éèâ, etc.) and those works. Any idea why the other one are not shown, is it the qDebug console that is not utf-8 ? is it QString that is not utf-8 ?

The parsing is not the the problem, because if I set directly the QString value to chinese character, I cannot display it in the console, example :
@user->first_name = "喜喜";
qDebug() << "USER FIRST NAME? IS " << user->first_name;@

Thanks if you can give me a hand

[JKSH]

Hi,

[quote]
@user->first_name = "喜喜";@
[/quote]You usually cannot put unicode strings in your source code directly -- your compiler might not understand it.

You need to use "Unicode string literals":http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7636797/unicode-string-literals, which was introduced in C++11.

[quote]
@qDebug() << "USER FIRST NAME? IS " << user->first_name;@
[/quote]I'm not 100% sure, but I think qDebug() uses your system's console. Windows' console cannot print Unicode.

You can try writing to a QLabel or a QFile instead.

[dbzhang800]

Hi, you need to make sure that your compiler support utf8 executable charset if you want to use raw Chinese string literals. Though this is not a problem for most compilers, but MSVC have very bad support for utf8 exec-charset.

[maximus]

I guess the problem is the console/Windows, like you said JKSH
If I ouput the result in a QLabel, it is displayed correctly
@ QString str = "喜喜";
ui->label_user->setText(str);@

I'll go code on Ubuntu now :)

Thanks for your input guys,