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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Unicode - codepages - ???
From:       Lars Knoll <Lars.Knoll () mpi-hd ! mpg ! de>
Date:       1999-08-20 22:21:28
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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Werner Trobin wrote:

> 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...
> 
Because CP1252 unfortunately isn't latin1, but latin1 with MS extensions
(I want to see one time, when this company keeps to standards). As far as
I remember, they differ in the region 0x80-0xA0...

Cheers,
Lars

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