Remove formatting from a text

Marty

Hello,

simple question : is there a way to remove all specific formatting from a text ? Like the button that exists in some wysiwyg editors or in gmail for instance : "remove all formatting" that allows to convert underlined / colored etc... text into plain text.

my problem : i have a line edit where i want to copy/paste text, and i have some character encoding problems from time to time, like when the copied text is from a web page.

i already use character conversions like toUtf8() or fromLatin1()

Thanks

Seamus Boyle

[quote author="Marty" date="1393353454"]
my problem : i have a line edit where i want to copy/paste text, and i have some character encoding problems from time to time, like when the copied text is from a web page.
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QLineEdit has copy/paste built in, nothing more is necessary. If you still want to remove/replace characters, look at methods of QString that take a QRexExp.

[quote author="Marty" date="1393353454"]
i already use character conversions like toUtf8() or fromLatin1()
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Have you tried fromUtf8()

Marty

Sorry the text i copy is from a webpage and i paste it in a cell of a QTableWidget but i think this doesn't make any difference.

I grab my text from the web page then i paste it into the cell.
I read the cell with currentItem()->text()

i then send this to my server which only understands latin1 character encoding with send(text.toLatin1())

example :

when i write manually the word "d'après" in the cell and sends it, my server displays "d'après"

when i copy/paste the same word from a site, my server displays "d?après"

Character encoding seems ok, but in the case of copy/paste there seems to be an issue