Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] How to represent a degree?

[Bogdan M. <dag...@gm...>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:40 PM, rusirus <rus...@qc...> wrote:
> While developing my plugin I've encountered an issue with representing
> the degree character on different platforms. When I enter a degree
> character into my code under Windows, I then can't edit the code under
> QT (or gedit) in Linux without first choosing an appropriate encoding.
> But then, when I go back to Windows, I get a spurious A (with the double
> oo for Angstrom) next to the degree character.
>
> I notice that Stellarium manages to represent the degree in its UI with
> no problem so is there a uniform way to represent this character under
> Windows, Linux and Mac?

Look at the code of the AngleSpinBox class, if you mean that.
http://www.stellarium.org/doc/head/classAngleSpinBox.html

Off  the top of my head, the way to do it is to use the QString::arg()
thing with an argument a QChar with the Unicode value of the degree
symbol.

Regards,
Bogdan Marinov