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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Unicode - codepages - ???
From:       Werner Trobin <wtrobin () carinthia ! com>
Date:       1999-08-20 20:07:37
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Lars Knoll wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Harri Porten wrote:
> 
> > Werner Trobin wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I'm reading text out of WinWord files. These characters are either
> > > stored as Unicode glyphs or as compressed Unicode characters (my
> > > documenation says Ms Word uses codepage 1252 for that).
> > > I want to read those characters (and if they are compressed covert
> > > them to Unicode).
> > >
> > > My questions are: May I use Qt to convert the codepage 1252 chars to
> > > "normal" two byte Unicode chars? What do I have to do? Where do I
> > > get this codepage from? Is it available on every supported platform
> > > in every country, or do I have to write my own "mapper" (from
> > > codepage 1252 to Unicode)?
> >
> > I don't know anything but codepage 1252 but Qt _can_ be used to do the
> > conversion. At least I got that impression when looking at the
> > QTextCodec. I saw stuff like UTF-8 in the sources.
> 
> QTextCodecs are the way to go. But AFAIK, Qt doesn't have a codec for
> CP1252 up to now. You could perhaps make one (it's quite simple, have a
> look at the defined codecs in $QTDIR/src/tools), add it to your filter or
> even submit it to the trolls for inclusion in their next release.

Now I found out that CP1252 is Latin 1 and AFAIK QString has a static member
QString::fromLatin1(...) Should I use this one? I think so, but why is it
impossible to get e.g. a "EURO" symbol (the cool e :)

Werner, clueless about that charsets...

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