Use of Unicode in Dynamic Translations related code.

[PoonamGupta]

Hello,

I have used Unicode "\xE2\x84\x83" in my code.

example: TextWidget *test = new TextWidget("\xE2\x84\x83", this); ----> it makes QString m_text = "\xE2\x84\x83" ;
where m_text is a member variable of TextWidget.

this TextWidget reacts to a languageChangeEvent.
In Language change event it returns QObject::tr(m_text);

In this case, it returns all question mark symbol. "????"

in my translation file (.ts) I don't have any translation for this Unicode. also Ideally if tr doesn't find any translation then it returns QString::fromUtf8(string) but in my case, it returns all "?????"

can anybody help for how to use Unicode in a dynamic translation environment?

Thanks in advance.

[VRonin]

QObject::tr(m_text);

Does this even compile?
The problem is not the non-asci chars, tr arguments must be the string literals to translate, not a variable.
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/i18n-source-translation.html#using-qt-tr-noop-and-qt-translate-noop-in-c

[PoonamGupta]

Hi,

Yes, it compiles. I do this

QByteArray text = m_immutableText.toLocal8Bit();
m_text = QObject::tr(text);

Also, I found this solution for this symbol issue :

QTextCodec *utfCodec = QTextCodec::codecForName("UTF-8"); //creating new utf-8 codec
QTextCodec::setCodecForLocale(utfCodec); // setting the utf-8 codec for the tr() tags

[VRonin]

Please read http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/i18n-source-translation.html#using-tr-for-all-literal-text

tr can't translate variables, it must be used only with literals

P.S.
m_text = QObject::tr(text); still doesn't compile, you are using m_text = QObject::tr(text.constData()); but it still can't work