[Qt-interest] QWebKit does not display chinese charcters from chinese web site

[John McClurkin]

Sorin Lazarescu wrote:
> Hi everybody
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> I use a small QT sample that uses QWebKit to render HTML pages. The 
> small sample written in Qt is below:
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> QWidget *win = new QWidget();
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> QVBoxLayout *lay = new QVBoxLayout();
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> QWebView *web = new QWebView();
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> web->load(QUrl("http://chinese.aol.com"));
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> lay->addWidget(web);
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> win->setLayout(lay);
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> win->show();
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> I have no problem to display any English Web site but when I am going to 
> http://chinese.aol.com all Chinese characters from the site are 
> presented as empty boxes or nothing. Arora that is based on WebKit 
> module has also the same problem when loading chinese site!
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> Is any way I could use WebKit and display the chinese HTML pages as IE 
> is doing?

You need to have Chinese fonts in directory searched by QWebKit. I don't 
know where IE looks for fonts.

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> Thanks
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> Sorin
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