Arabic in Qt with QString

Question

I want to add an Arabic title to my Qt application, but it didn\'t work. Here is my code:

#include \"mainwindow.h\"
#include 
#include          


        

Answer 1

That looks like a typical "UTF-8 interpreted as ISO-8859-1" encoding issue. In fact it's a "CP1256 interpreted as Latin1" issue.

On Windows, with a non-Unicode codepage, try the following:

QString appTitle = QString::fromLocal8Bit("تجربه");

If you had your source file in UTF-8, try this instead:

QString appTitle = QString::fromUtf8("تجربه");

(See codecForLocale() for what that's supposed to do.)

Qt Creator 2.7/Windows 7 (in a VM)/UTF-8 source file: