[Qtwebengine] black screen when locale is set

[Kai Koehne]

Hi Tassilo,

I don't think this is a known issue. Would you mind filing it under bugreports.qt.io (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG/component/20522) ?

Thanks

Kai

> -----Original Message-----
> From: QtWebEngine [mailto:qtwebengine-bounces+kai.koehne=qt.io at qt-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Tassilo Glander
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 8:53 AM
> To: qtwebengine at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Qtwebengine] black screen when locale is set
> 
> Dear List,
> I get a black screen where the browser widget is supposed to be when I set
> the locale to German (de-DE, others also do not work). If I skip this setting, or
> if I set it to others (examples: en-US, en-GB, zh-CN), the web page renders
> as expected.
> 
> I build qt locally on Windows 7, Visual Studio2015 SP2, using the Windows 10
> SDK and could reproduce the behavior in qt versions 5.5.1, 5.6.0 and dev, so I
> guess it occurs everywhere. However, I could not reproduce this with the
> precompiled version of Qt (official download, I used 5.6.1).
> 
> So I suspect it to be an issue of my build and would like to ask for opinions.
> Could it be about the specific Windows SDK? I configure with configure -
> confirm-license -opensource -nomake examples -nomake tests -debug-and-
> release -force-debug-info -platform win32-msvc2015
> 
> Below you find a minimal example that reproduces the error.
> Best,
> Tassilo
> 
> #include "QMainWindow"
> #include "QLabel"
> #include "QWebEngineView"
> #include "QApplication"
> #include <locale>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     // works
>     //std::locale loc("en-GB");
>     //std::locale loc("en-US");
>     //std::locale loc("en-NZ");
>     //std::locale loc("af-ZA");
>     //std::locale loc("zh-CN");
> 
>     // if one of the following locales are set, black screen is shown instead of
> web page
>     std::locale loc("German_germany");
>     //std::locale loc("de-DE");
>     //std::locale loc("nl-NL");
>     //std::locale loc("cs-CZ");
>     //std::locale loc("es-ES");
>     //std::locale loc("vi");
>     std::locale::global(loc);
> 
>     QApplication app(argc, argv);
>     QMainWindow* mainWindow = new QMainWindow();
>     QWebEngineView* webView = new QWebEngineView(mainWindow);
>     webView->setUrl(QUrl(QString("http://www.google.de")));
>     mainWindow->setCentralWidget(webView);
> 
>     mainWindow->show();
>     return app.exec();
> }
> 
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