C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4

Chapter 17. Internationalization

• Working with Unicode

• Making Applications Translation-Aware

• Dynamic Language Switching

• Translating Applications

In addition to the Latin alphabet used for English and for many European languages, Qt 4 also provides extensive support for the rest of the world’s writing systems:

• Qt uses Unicode throughout the API and internally. No matter what language we use for the user interface, the application can support all users alike.

• Qt’s text engine can handle all the major non-Latin writing systems, including Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and the Indic languages.

• Qt’s layout engine supports right-to-left ...