Set Qt default encoding to UTF-8

qt utf-8 character-encoding c-strings
xx77aBs picture xx77aBs · Jan 2, 2012 · Viewed 21.9k times · Source

In my Qt application my source code files are encoded as UTF-8. For the following code...

QMessageBox::critical(this, "Nepoznata pogreška", "Dogodila se nepoznata pogreška! Želite li zatvoriti ovaj program ?", QMessageBox::Yes, QMessageBox::No);

...when I show that message box, the character "š" wouldn't be displayed as "š", but as something strange. This is because Qt converts all C-strings as if they are encoded using LATIN-1. To solve this I've been using:

QMessageBox::critical(this, QString::fromUtf8("Nepoznata pogreška"), QString::fromUtf8("Dogodila se nepoznata pogreška! Želite li zatvoriti ovaj program ?"), QMessageBox::Yes, QMessageBox::No);

Is there a way to get rid of all the calls to QString::fromUtf8()?

Answer

Samuel Harmer picture Samuel Harmer · Jan 2, 2012

Have you tried using QTextCodec::setCodecForCStrings(QTextCodec::codecForName("UTF-8"))?

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