On 13-4-2010 12:30, Meir Yanovich wrote: > this is the gibberish: > > "N{žìªì@ñB›ÁÊʶ‚" Simple. The QByteArray contains bytes after your operation. The raw value, not a string. I guess you want the hexadecimal representation of those values in your string. Use QByteArray::toHex() to get that. André