[mythtv] [BUG] mythvideo special characters in the title, director and description fields

Xavier Hervy maxpower44 at tiscali.fr
Fri May 28 11:49:51 EDT 2004


Xavier Hervy wrote:

> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> 
>> Xavier Hervy wrote:
>>
>>> Donavan, you make some change to correct bug with special characters 
>>> in videobrowser.cpp. but I don't have bug before your patch and now 
>>> all special characters are replace by little square :-(
>>> for example u replace
>>> type->SetText(plot);
>>> by
>>> type->SetText(QString::fromUtf8(plot));
>>> The problem should be my settings but i don't know what i should 
>>> change to have again the good characters.
>>> Can you explain me what is wrong ?
>>>
>> My guess would be that your font doesn't include the international 
>> characters in question maybe?  Are you saying that prior to that 
>> change you did show international characters correctly?
>>
> Exactly then i don't understand where is the problem ....
> Someone know ?
> 

I see somewhere that qt 3.1 have a bug with utf8 then i have install qt 
3.2 but know special characters are not replace by square but by blank :-(
Any idea ?



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