Qt Unicode

Unicode is the standard for encoding text in almost all languages spoken in the world. It is nowadays used as the native encoding for text on most modern operating systems. The major exception is Microsoft Windows that still has a dual system supporting code pages and Unicode for applications.

Qt's Classes for Working with Strings

These classes are relevant when working with string data. For information about rendering text, see the 富文本处理 overview, and if your string data is in XML, see the XML 处理概述。

QAnyStringView	带有 QString API 只读子集的 Latin-1、UTF-8 或 UTF-16 字符串统一视图
QByteArray	字节数组
QByteArrayList	字节数组列表
QByteArrayMatcher	保持在字节数组中可以快速匹配的字节序列
QByteArrayView	带有只读 QByteArray API 子集的字节数组视图
QChar	16 位 Unicode 字符
QCollator	根据本地整理算法比较字符串
QCollatorSortKey	可以用于加速字符串整理
QLatin1Char	8 位 ASCII/Latin-1 字符
QLatin1StringMatcher	优化搜索 Latin-1 文本中的子字符串
QLatin1StringView	围绕 US-ASCII/Latin-1 编码字符串文字的瘦包裹器
QLocale	在数字及其各种语言的字符串表示之间转换
QStaticByteArrayMatcher	QByteArrayMatcher 的编译时版本
QString	Unicode 字符串
QStringList	字符串列表
QStringMatcher	保持可以在 Unicode 字符串中快速匹配的字符序列
QStringRef	围绕 QString 子字符串的瘦包裹器
QStringTokenizer	沿给定分隔符将字符串分割成令牌
QStringView	带有 QString API 只读子集的 UTF-16 字符串统一视图
QTextBoundaryFinder	在字符串中查找 Unicode 文本边界的办法
QTextStream	用于读写文本的方便接口
QUtf8StringView	带有 QString API 只读子集的 UTF-8 字符串统一视图

Information about Unicode on the Web

The Unicode Consortium has a number of documents available, including

Qt Unicode

In Qt, and in most applications that use Qt, most or all user-visible strings are stored using Unicode. Qt provides:

Translation to/from legacy encoding for file I/O: see QTextCodec and QTextStream .
Support for locale specific Input Methods and keyboards.
A string class, QString , that stores Unicode characters, with support for migrating from C strings including fast translation to and from UTF-8, ISO8859-1 and US-ASCII, and all the usual string operations.
Unicode-aware UI controls.
Unicode compliant text segmentation ( QTextBoundaryFinder )
Unicode compliant line breaking and text rendering

To fully benefit from Unicode, we recommend using QString for storing all user-visible strings, and performing all text file I/O using QTextStream .

All the function arguments in Qt that may be user-visible strings, QLabel::setText () and a many others, take const QString & s. QString provides implicit casting from const char * so that things like

label->setText("Password:");

will work. There is also a function, QObject::tr (), that provides translation support, like this:

label->setText(tr("Password:"));

QObject::tr () maps from const char * to a Unicode string, and uses installable QTranslator objects to do the mapping.

Qt provides a number of built-in QTextCodec classes, that is, classes that know how to translate between Unicode and legacy encodings to support programs that must talk to other programs or read/write files in legacy file formats.

Conversion to/from const char * uses a UTF-8. However, applications can easily find codecs for other locales, and set any open file or network connection to use a special codec.

Since US-ASCII and ISO-8859-1 are so common, there are also especially fast functions for mapping to and from them. For example, to open an application's icon one might do this:

QFile file(QString::fromLatin1("appicon.png"));

QFile file(QLatin1String("appicon.png"));

Qt supports rendering text in most languages written in the world. The detailed list of supported writing systems depends a bit on operating system support and font availability on the target system.

另请参阅 Qt 国际化 .