[Qt-interest] Displaying unicode strings

[Thiago Macieira]

On Saturday 28. August 2010 20.28.49 Andre Somers wrote:
>   Op 28-8-2010 18:51, Eeli Reilin schreef:
> >> How was the JSON data parsed into strings?
> > 
> > The data comes from the QNetworkReply::readAll() as a QByteArray, and is
> > then used to construct a QString. The data is parsed into strings using
> > the QString::mid method among other things. So the the strings are
> > actually just substrings of the actual JSON string.
> 
> A QByteArray is not a string. It is just a bunch of bytes. To get from
> that to a string that makes sense, you need to know how that string is
> encoded. So, *how* are your strings encoded? And are you using method
> calls that convey that encoding to so the byte array can be properly
> interpreted as a string?

Also note that \uXXXX is not part of any encoding. If you wish to parse that, 
you have to do it yourself.

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