Qt Ubuntu encoding of Characters

[airglide]

Hello everyone,

I've got the problem that Qt has a problem when I want to open a file from the command line with (I'm using Ubuntu)

./myapp /home/username/Arbeitsfläche/somefile

./myapp /home/username/Arbeitsfläche/somefile

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the problem is that Arbeitsfläche is read as: Arbeitsfläche and if I want to open it, that directory doesn't exist

if I open the file with: QFileDialog::getOpenFileName, I get the correct string

can someone help me out or point me in the right direction?

thank you

airglide

[wysota]

the problem is that Arbeitsfläche is read as

Is read by whom? If you hardcoded the filename in your application, you need to tell Qt, what encoding you used (e.g. QString::fromUtf8()).

[anda_skoa]

QString::fromUtf8() will most likely work since most Linux systems have been using that codec for years now.
Alternatively use QString::fromLocal8Bit() which uses the system's locale information to determine the currently used encoding

Also have a look at QFile::decodeName()

Cheers,
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[airglide]

great, thanks to both of you, I used QString::fromLocal8Bit()