Non-standard ascii characters to and from a file

[Tux-Slack]

Hello everyone!

I'm developing a small app witch contains a list view and then saves it to the disk and loads it back.
Everything works just fine, until I put non-standard ASCII chars into the list, like Å¡čžćđ.
If I go ahead and just save that string like it is, i get ?(question marks) all over instead of the inputed chars.
If I change the string wiht QString::local8Bit() function then it saves right.
The problem is, when I try to load the file back. The chars load good into a QString. So if in a file there is Å¡čćžđ then there's going to be the same in the QString to witch I load it.
The problem is when I add this QString to the list view. Then I get these chars:
šč� �¾
Now I've ran out of ideas, and don't know what could I do next.
This is how I add it to the list view:

{
    QString Num;
    QPixmap icon;
 
    icon = setItemIcon(Tip, Lastnistvo);
 
    QListViewItem * item = new QListViewItem( listView1, 0 );
    if ( zap_st == -1 )
      item->setText( 0, Num.setNum( itemCount ) );
    else
      item->setText( 0, Num.setNum( zap_st ) );
    item->setText( 1, Naslov );
    item->setPixmap( 1, icon );
    dataChange = 1;
 
    StatusBar->message( tr( "\"%1\" added to list").arg(Naslov), 2000 );
}

{
    QString Num;
    QPixmap icon;

    icon = setItemIcon(Tip, Lastnistvo);

    QListViewItem * item = new QListViewItem( listView1, 0 );
    if ( zap_st == -1 )
      item->setText( 0, Num.setNum( itemCount ) );
    else
      item->setText( 0, Num.setNum( zap_st ) );
    item->setText( 1, Naslov );
    item->setPixmap( 1, icon );
    dataChange = 1;

    StatusBar->message( tr( "\"%1\" added to list").arg(Naslov), 2000 );
}

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[jacek]

How do you read those strings from the file?

[Tux-Slack]

QFile f( fileName );
f.readLine(QString, int length)

[jacek]

Use QTextStream instead. This way you can enforce the encoding using QTextStream::setEncoding() or QTextStream::setCodec().

[Tux-Slack]

Thank you very much for this.