Problem with text characters not showing with msvc relases

Q139

When code below get build with msvc 2015 64 then instead of "████▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬" , is displayed ?????????????????????????????????? , problem does not exist with mingw compiler.
Other regular text like numbers and regular chars is displayed fine.

 // thread info
    QString info;
    info.append(QString::number(TESTER.threadPtrVec.size())+"\n");
    for(int e=0; e<TESTER.threadPtrVec.size(); e++){
        RUNNER * ptr = TESTER.threadPtrVec[e];

        double progress = ptr->L_kaugus/data_size;

        QString bar;

        if(progress<0.5){
        if(progress<0.05){
            bar="▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.1){
            bar="█▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.15){
            bar="██▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.2){
            bar="███▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.25){
            bar="████▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.3){
            bar="█████▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.35){
            bar="██████▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.4){
            bar="███████▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.45){
            bar="████████▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.5){
            bar="█████████▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }
        }else{
        if(progress<0.55){
            bar="██████████▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.60){
            bar="███████████▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.65){
            bar="████████████▬▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.70){
            bar="█████████████▬▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.75){
            bar="██████████████▬▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.80){
            bar="███████████████▬▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.85){
            bar="████████████████▬▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.90){
            bar="█████████████████▬▬";
        }else if(progress<0.95){
            bar="██████████████████▬";
        }else if(progress>0.95){
            bar="██████████████████▌";
        }
        }


     //  bar=QString::number((int)(progress*100));

        double num = ptr->prev_result;
        QString numQ;
        if(num>0){
            numQ=" "+QString::number(num);
        }else{
            numQ=QString::number(num);
        }

         info += bar+" "+numQ +"\n";


    }

    ui->tester_info->setText(info); // tester_info is qlabel

jsulm

Which characters do you use exactly? Unicode?

VRonin

try declaring the string as wide:

bar=QString::fromWCharArray(L"██████████████████▌");

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

raven-worx

@Q139
Since you are using plain strings also make sure you did not save your file in some special encoding.

Does the problem also occur when you specifying the unicode values for the characters directly?

Q139

bar=QString::fromWCharArray(L"██████████████████▌"); solved the problem.
Thanks

File was saved without obfuscations or any encoding.
On mingw compiler text displayed correct by default .
Maybe due to some compiler differences or autofix to problem.