menus with non-english language

[aegis]

hi, i wanted to create a menu with options written in greek so i wrote something like this::




anAction= new QAction("Επεξεργασία", this);

or

anAction= new QAction("Greek words...", this);



but when i tried to run the program the menu had rubbish....

how can i fix this problem?

[jpn]

Start with reading article Internationalization with Qt (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/i18n.html). ;)

The preferred way is to do:

anAction= new QAction(tr("Greek words..."), this);
and do the actual translation with the internationalization tools provided with Qt.

[aegis]

ok i could do this,but doesn't evolve alot of extra work for someone that doesn't want to translate his application simply write it from the beginning into another language....

[wysota]

Then this someone should use a proper encoding, set a codec or use proper QString methods that take input in the used encoding.

[jpn]

I have a feeling that using exotic letters might also cause problems for some compilers.

[wysota]

Not speaking of two or more people modifying the same file and forgetting to use the same encoding... Lots of problems :) Qt is quite liberal here, for example gettext forbids using message keys in encodings different than latin1.