Help needed to convert unicode characters

[hybrid_snyper]

Thanks, I thought I'd better give some context in the way the JSON is used. I have tried converting raw back to a const char* and using QString::fromUtf8 but that doesn't work either.

As you can see the QString does contain \u00e9, I guess what is going on here would be like if "\n" was treat as two separate bytes and printed as '\' 'n'.

struct JSONProcessor : public RPCRequest::Processor
    {
        virtual QVariant process( const QString& raw )
        {
            // This is what raw looks like
            // "{\"data\":[{\"id\":\"535666\",\"readable\":true,\"title\":\"B\u00e9linda\"}]}";
 
            //this doesn't work
            //qDebug() << QString::fromUtf8(raw);
 
            return someProcessing( raw );
        }
    };

struct JSONProcessor : public RPCRequest::Processor
    {
        virtual QVariant process( const QString& raw )
        {
            // This is what raw looks like
            // "{\"data\":[{\"id\":\"535666\",\"readable\":true,\"title\":\"B\u00e9linda\"}]}";

            //this doesn't work
            //qDebug() << QString::fromUtf8(raw);
            
            return someProcessing( raw );
        }
    };

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[ChrisW67]

OK. Nothing in the standard Qt bag-o-tricks will do this for you. You need to disassemble and un-escape the escaped elements, e.g. \" or \u00e9, yourself using QRegExp, QString etc. (see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt) or use something like QJson (LGPL) to do it for you. I would go the second route unless licences prohibit you.

[hybrid_snyper]

Just thought I would close this thread off and point to the solution that helped me. Turned out the API I was talking to was returning a 'unicode' string representation of special characters and not unicode.

Anyways this helped http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/3731...icode-Problems