Encoding problem - QObject::tr doesn't translate sentences with accents

[Sébastien]

Hello,

I'm using Qt 5.0.1 for my project. Every source code is written in French, and I want to translate it in English. With the prior version of Qt (4.x), I used to translate my program with no problems. But now with Qt 5, sentences with accents are not translated anymore.

I know Qt5 expects the source code to be written with UTF-8. Then I upgraded to Qt5, I changed the encoding of my files to UTF-8. So every header and source file is in UTF-8. I read on the Internet that one should add CODECFORTR = UTF-8 in their .pro file. Whether I do it or not, I still have the same issue.

Here is a piece of source code:


And here is how I see it in Qt Linguist:

We can notice that

QAction *fSaveMass = file->addAction(tr("Enregistrer sous différentes teintes"));

QAction *fSaveMass = file->addAction(tr("Enregistrer sous différentes teintes"));

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has become in Qt Linguist

QAction *fSaveMass = file->addAction(tr("Enregistrer sous différentes teintes"));

QAction *fSaveMass = file->addAction(tr("Enregistrer sous différentes teintes"));

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which means that Qt Linguist opens it thinking it's a latin encoding, while it's utf-8. But on the left and bottom side of Qt Linguist, it got the source code right: it's written "différentes" with the right encoding :s.

I think that's why my sentences with accents are not translated (the rest works fine). Does someone have any idea?

Thank you very much!

Regards,
Sébastien.

[Sébastien]

Hello everyone!

I solved the problem. I post here in case someone has the issue. It seems to be a glitch of QtLinguist. The only thing I was doing wrong was to release the qm files with Qt Linguist. If I release them with lrelease.exe, then it works as expected, sentences with accents are translated !

So don't release with Qt Linguist...