Qt4 and system locale

I need to know system locale (en, uk, ru etc.) to load appropriate translation. In Qt3 there was QTextCodec::locale() method for this but Qt4 assistant says:

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The following class members are part of the Qt 3 support layer. They are provided to help you port old code to Qt 4. We advise against using them in new code.

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Also there is QLocale class that has country(), language() and name() methods in Qt4. But there is no locale().
On my Linux machine countryToString() gives me Default and language() - C, but locale is koi8-u. So how can I get system locale?

Sorry, already did it under win. Will try under Linux at home.

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Originally Posted by L.Marvell

Also there is QLocale class that has country(), language() and name() methods in Qt4. But there is no locale().

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QLocale::name() looks promising:

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QString QLocale::name () const
Returns the language and country of this locale as a string of the form "language_country", where language is a lowercase, two-letter ISO 639 language code, and country is an uppercase, two-letter ISO 3166 country code.
See also language() and country().

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Originally Posted by L.Marvell

but locale is koi8-u.

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IMO that's the encoding, not locale.

Yes, exactly QLocale::name() helped. I had to look through examples before post question. :o

Hi, all!

I have similar problem in qt4 under win.
I want to get system encoding.

So I do:

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QTextCodec * localCodec = QTextCodec::codecForLocale();
QByteArray name = localCodec->name();

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variable name contain value "System". But I want to get value "cp1251" or "koi8-r" or something else depending of value current local encoding... Value "System" is not informatively.

Anybody know how to get name of current system encoding?

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Originally Posted by Sergey

Anybody know how to get name of current system encoding?

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Have you tried QTextCodec::aliases()?

Yes.
it returns NULL.

Then maybe if you use QTextCodec::mibEnum() first and then get a new codec using QTextCodec::codecForMib() it will have a proper name?

I wrote next code:

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QTextCodec * localCodec = QTextCodec::codecForLocale();
	int mib = localCodec->mibEnum();
	QTextCodec * codec = QTextCodec::codecForMib(mib);
	QByteArray n = codec->name();

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variable n contain value "System"...

Maybe this is a bug in QTextCodec?

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Originally Posted by Sergey

Maybe this is a bug in QTextCodec?

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I think that rather OS doesn't specify what encoding it uses currently.