Pasting emoji in QT QTextEdit

Question

I\'m trying to paste emoji\'s in the QT QTextEdit box but it\'s not getting recognized and it\'s showing as ??? or [][]

I\'m not talking about smiley, I\'m talking about

Answer 1

The Qt documentation of QTextEdit::paste() says: To change the behavior of this function, i.e. to modify what QTextEdit can paste and how it is being pasted, reimplement the virtual canInsertFromMimeData() and insertFromMimeData() functions.

There you should be able to convert the pasted data e.g. to an HTML img element pointing to a file that is embedded into the application by ressource compiler (or to image file on disk).