[SOLVED] UTF-8 and special character decoding

[AlterX]

Hello,
I am getting crazy...I tried a lot of suggestions from internet without success!
I have a string, coming from internet and when I print out it, i have this:
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qDebug()<< "received UTF-8 text: " << QString::fromUtf8(text);
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Output of above instruction is:
received UTF-8 text: Test \u003c \u003e

this escape characters are html tags ( < > )

all my file are UTF-8 (set from within QtCreator) this problem is in a .cpp file, even though qlm TextEdit is not able to manage it and show correct string!

Someone knows how to resolve this problem?

[sierdzio]

What is text variable in the snippet? Is it a QByteArray, char* or another QString?

[AlterX]

Ah sorry...QString(char *)
I know that the above constructor can be a problem dealing with utf, but unfortunately I didn't find a solution.

[sierdzio]

I would try with QString::fromUtf16() and QString::fromRawData(). Maybe one of them would work.

[AlterX]

Ok thanks I will give a try

[AlterX]

I am printing this in cpp file using qDebug and then I assign this text to a qml TextEdit...and it dispalys on android exactly that string with escape characters...unbelievable!

[AlterX]

I found a solution and I write it down just to help others in case:
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QTextCodec *codec = QTextCodec::codecForName("ISO 8859-1");

QString asciiString = codec->fromUnicode(text);
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[sierdzio]

Great, thank you for sharing!