Bug: UTF-8 encoding in Github repo, issue #315

None that I’ve noticed.

It doesn’t matter where there is a ° symbol, it shows as  °

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I don’t know where else to look :slight_smile:

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Maybe there’s something here that explains recent problems:

The section on ICU and Windows on Qt website:

Building Qt 5 from Git - Qt Wiki

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I have solved the mystery of degree symbol display - as explained here:

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It’s wasn’t using MSVC to build… that’s why there was no issue. It’s also why I never had a problem up until I was forced to install Visual Studio to build with Qt6 instead of building with GCC OR downloaded a Windows build from Github. It’s also one of those stupid issues where you read information that just leads you down another rabbit hole without any fix. It wasn’t until I built with the MSVC kit and noticed the error pop up that I put 2 and 2 together to realize it’s MSVC related.

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Excellent! This was a small but highly annoying problem. Thank you!!!

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Thought of another place it’s an issue. If a user selects certain other “Label” languages - that is the language that displays the point name text… there’s the same issue with some of the alphabet chars used. For example when choosing Deutsch here’s the incorrect result on the left, with the fix on the right.

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I’ve got the Duetsch string fixed, just have to fix the remainder of the languages.

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All done. The last 4 (cyrillic) languages were tedius - it took 1/2 the day to look up all the char codes and convert to octal to reassemble the base label strings. Whew.

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Wow! @Douglas. You’re a star. Thank you very much.

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Just fyi: The fix is in tomorrows weekly release, and it affected only windows users

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Thank you very much, @csett86. You’re a star, too :star_struck:

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