It turned out to be easy indeed. The attached patch enables the Qt
Help->About dialog to display accented characters nicely.
Ok to apply?
Jean-Marc, interested in something similar for 1.3.x.?
--
Angus
Index: src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/lyx/cvsroot/lyx-devel/src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.759
diff -u -p -r1.759 ChangeLog
--- src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog 21 Mar 2005 08:31:54 -0000 1.759
+++ src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog 8 Apr 2005 09:29:30 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-04-08 Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+ * QAbout.C (build_dialog): specify that the CREDITS data is
+ encoded in ISO-8859-1 (latin1).
+
2005-03-18 Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* ui/QPrefLatexModule.ui: fix layout
Index: src/frontends/qt2/QAbout.C
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/lyx/cvsroot/lyx-devel/src/frontends/qt2/QAbout.C,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -p -r1.35 QAbout.C
--- src/frontends/qt2/QAbout.C 24 Jul 2004 10:55:22 -0000 1.35
+++ src/frontends/qt2/QAbout.C 8 Apr 2005 09:29:30 -0000
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <qlabel.h>
#include <qpushbutton.h>
+#include <qtextcodec.h>
#include <qtextview.h>
using lyx::support::prefixIs;
@@ -104,7 +105,16 @@ void QAbout::build_dialog()
}
#endif
- dialog_->creditsTV->setText(toqstr(out.str()));
+ // Try and grab the latin1 codec
+ QTextCodec * const codec =
+ QTextCodec::codecForName("ISO8859-1");
+ if (!codec)
+ lyxerr << "Unable to find ISO8859-1 codec" << std::endl;
+
+ QString const qtext = codec ?
+ codec->toUnicode(out.str().c_str()) :
+ toqstr(out.str());
+ dialog_->creditsTV->setText(qtext);
// try to resize to a good size
dialog_->copyright->hide();
