QDomElement fetch text encoding problems

[Zerosum3]

Hello,

I am trying to get a french text from an xml here is the part of my code with the problem:

if (e.attribute("name","")==signName) return e.attribute(att,"");

The thing is that it doesnt return the french characters instead of them i have a "?". I create the xml from the code too, with QFile, i tried to change the extension from xml to txt no luck, opening the file in notepad or other programs shows the text correctly.Tried to fetch a french text from QFile with the read() method and it also works correcly, tried to put something like this e.attribute().toUTF8 and instead of "?" i get other strange simbols.Is this a problem with dom or the attribute method?

Thanks,
ZeroSum

[Zerosum3]

Hello,

So created via QDomDocument an xml in which i put a french text, all was well, opened the file with notepad, the french letters were shown correctly, however when i try to fetch the data with QDomElement e.attribute("info","") the format is broken, all the instead of all the french characters i get a "?",tried to make the xml document saved in .txt format still the same problem.If anyone has any suggestions i'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
ZeroSum

[divanov]

You should specify proper encoding in the opening tag

<?xml version="1.1" encoding="UTF-8"?>

[achipa]

So created via QDomDocument an xml in which i put a french text, all was well, opened the file with notepad, the french letters were shown correctly, however when i try to fetch the data with QDomElement e.attribute("info","") the format is broken, all the instead of all the french characters i get a "?",tried to make the xml document saved in .txt format still the same problem.If anyone has any suggestions i'd appreciate it.

You have to specify the encoding in the XML - QDomDocument cannot know up-front what encoding your externally inserted text will be in. Daniil has provided you with an example how to specify utf-8 (which is probably what you should use) but if your French text is 8859-1 or something similar, then of course specify that. The fact that a file shows 'correctly' in notepad means little - it's more about the defaults of notepad (and thus your system) than the correctness of encoding in general.

[Zerosum3]

Hello thank you all for answering,

I have solved this problem by adding this to my xml:

<?xml version="1.1" encoding="ISO 8859-1"?>


Thank you all,
Zerosum

[pir2d2]

<?xml version="1.1" encoding="ISO 8859-1"?>

That helped me a lot. No. It saved me !