diff --git a/src/libs/vmisc/svgfont/svgdef.cpp b/src/libs/vmisc/svgfont/svgdef.cpp
index ffefac22b..5b89bcf24 100644
--- a/src/libs/vmisc/svgfont/svgdef.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/vmisc/svgfont/svgdef.cpp
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 
 #include <QChar>
 #include <QString>
-#include <QStringView>
 
 //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 auto LatinWritingSystem(QChar c) -> bool
@@ -1486,6 +1485,7 @@ auto NkoWritingSystem(QChar c) -> bool
 //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 auto WritingSystemSample(SVGFontWritingSystem writingSystem) -> QString
 {
+#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK(5, 10, 0)
     return [&]() -> QStringView
     {
         switch (writingSystem)
@@ -1563,4 +1563,222 @@ auto WritingSystemSample(SVGFontWritingSystem writingSystem) -> QString
         }
     }()
                         .toString();
+#else
+    QString sample;
+    switch (writingSystem)
+    {
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Any:
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Symbol:
+            sample += QLatin1String("AaBbzZ");
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Latin:
+            sample = QLatin1String("Aa");
+            sample += QChar(0x00C3);
+            sample += QChar(0x00E1);
+            sample += QLatin1String("Zz");
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Greek:
+            sample += QChar(0x0393);
+            sample += QChar(0x03B1);
+            sample += QChar(0x03A9);
+            sample += QChar(0x03C9);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Cyrillic:
+            sample += QChar(0x0414);
+            sample += QChar(0x0434);
+            sample += QChar(0x0436);
+            sample += QChar(0x044f);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Armenian:
+            sample += QChar(0x053f);
+            sample += QChar(0x054f);
+            sample += QChar(0x056f);
+            sample += QChar(0x057f);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Hebrew:
+            sample += QChar(0x05D0);
+            sample += QChar(0x05D1);
+            sample += QChar(0x05D2);
+            sample += QChar(0x05D3);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Arabic:
+            sample += QChar(0x0623);
+            sample += QChar(0x0628);
+            sample += QChar(0x062C);
+            sample += QChar(0x062F);
+            sample += QChar(0x064A);
+            sample += QChar(0x0629);
+            sample += QChar(0x0020);
+            sample += QChar(0x0639);
+            sample += QChar(0x0631);
+            sample += QChar(0x0628);
+            sample += QChar(0x064A);
+            sample += QChar(0x0629);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Syriac:
+            sample += QChar(0x0715);
+            sample += QChar(0x0725);
+            sample += QChar(0x0716);
+            sample += QChar(0x0726);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Thaana:
+            sample += QChar(0x0784);
+            sample += QChar(0x0794);
+            sample += QChar(0x078c);
+            sample += QChar(0x078d);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Devanagari:
+            sample += QChar(0x0905);
+            sample += QChar(0x0915);
+            sample += QChar(0x0925);
+            sample += QChar(0x0935);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Bengali:
+            sample += QChar(0x0986);
+            sample += QChar(0x0996);
+            sample += QChar(0x09a6);
+            sample += QChar(0x09b6);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Gurmukhi:
+            sample += QChar(0x0a05);
+            sample += QChar(0x0a15);
+            sample += QChar(0x0a25);
+            sample += QChar(0x0a35);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Gujarati:
+            sample += QChar(0x0a85);
+            sample += QChar(0x0a95);
+            sample += QChar(0x0aa5);
+            sample += QChar(0x0ab5);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Oriya:
+            sample += QChar(0x0b06);
+            sample += QChar(0x0b16);
+            sample += QChar(0x0b2b);
+            sample += QChar(0x0b36);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Tamil:
+            sample += QChar(0x0b89);
+            sample += QChar(0x0b99);
+            sample += QChar(0x0ba9);
+            sample += QChar(0x0bb9);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Telugu:
+            sample += QChar(0x0c05);
+            sample += QChar(0x0c15);
+            sample += QChar(0x0c25);
+            sample += QChar(0x0c35);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Kannada:
+            sample += QChar(0x0c85);
+            sample += QChar(0x0c95);
+            sample += QChar(0x0ca5);
+            sample += QChar(0x0cb5);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Malayalam:
+            sample += QChar(0x0d05);
+            sample += QChar(0x0d15);
+            sample += QChar(0x0d25);
+            sample += QChar(0x0d35);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Sinhala:
+            sample += QChar(0x0d90);
+            sample += QChar(0x0da0);
+            sample += QChar(0x0db0);
+            sample += QChar(0x0dc0);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Thai:
+            sample += QChar(0x0e02);
+            sample += QChar(0x0e12);
+            sample += QChar(0x0e22);
+            sample += QChar(0x0e32);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Lao:
+            sample += QChar(0x0e8d);
+            sample += QChar(0x0e9d);
+            sample += QChar(0x0ead);
+            sample += QChar(0x0ebd);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Tibetan:
+            sample += QChar(0x0f00);
+            sample += QChar(0x0f01);
+            sample += QChar(0x0f02);
+            sample += QChar(0x0f03);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Myanmar:
+            sample += QChar(0x1000);
+            sample += QChar(0x1001);
+            sample += QChar(0x1002);
+            sample += QChar(0x1003);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Georgian:
+            sample += QChar(0x10a0);
+            sample += QChar(0x10b0);
+            sample += QChar(0x10c0);
+            sample += QChar(0x10d0);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Khmer:
+            sample += QChar(0x1780);
+            sample += QChar(0x1790);
+            sample += QChar(0x17b0);
+            sample += QChar(0x17c0);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::SimplifiedChinese:
+            sample += QChar(0x4e2d);
+            sample += QChar(0x6587);
+            sample += QChar(0x8303);
+            sample += QChar(0x4f8b);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::TraditionalChinese:
+            sample += QChar(0x4e2d);
+            sample += QChar(0x6587);
+            sample += QChar(0x7bc4);
+            sample += QChar(0x4f8b);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Japanese:
+            sample += QChar(0x30b5);
+            sample += QChar(0x30f3);
+            sample += QChar(0x30d7);
+            sample += QChar(0x30eb);
+            sample += QChar(0x3067);
+            sample += QChar(0x3059);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Korean:
+            sample += QChar(0xac00);
+            sample += QChar(0xac11);
+            sample += QChar(0xac1a);
+            sample += QChar(0xac2f);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Vietnamese:
+        {
+            static const char vietnameseUtf8[] = {
+                char(0xef), char(0xbb), char(0xbf), char(0xe1), char(0xbb), char(0x97), char(0xe1), char(0xbb),
+                char(0x99), char(0xe1), char(0xbb), char(0x91), char(0xe1), char(0xbb), char(0x93),
+            };
+            sample += QString::fromUtf8(vietnameseUtf8, sizeof(vietnameseUtf8));
+            break;
+        }
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Ogham:
+            sample += QChar(0x1681);
+            sample += QChar(0x1682);
+            sample += QChar(0x1683);
+            sample += QChar(0x1684);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Runic:
+            sample += QChar(0x16a0);
+            sample += QChar(0x16a1);
+            sample += QChar(0x16a2);
+            sample += QChar(0x16a3);
+            break;
+        case SVGFontWritingSystem::Nko:
+            sample += QChar(0x7ca);
+            sample += QChar(0x7cb);
+            sample += QChar(0x7cc);
+            sample += QChar(0x7cd);
+            break;
+        default:
+            break;
+    }
+    return sample;
+#endif
 }
diff --git a/src/libs/vmisc/svgfont/vsvgfontreader.cpp b/src/libs/vmisc/svgfont/vsvgfontreader.cpp
index f3b9bf742..db155d238 100644
--- a/src/libs/vmisc/svgfont/vsvgfontreader.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/vmisc/svgfont/vsvgfontreader.cpp
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ auto ParseFontWeight(const QString &fontWeight) -> SVGFontWeight
 //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 auto InitFont(const QXmlStreamAttributes &fontAttr) -> VSvgFont
 {
-    const QStringView hax = fontAttr.value(QLatin1String("horiz-adv-x"));
+    const auto hax = fontAttr.value(QLatin1String("horiz-adv-x"));
     qreal horizAdvX = hax.toDouble();
 
     QString id = fontAttr.value(QLatin1String("id")).toString();
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ void VSvgFontReader::SetFontFace(VSvgFont *font)
 {
     QXmlStreamAttributes fontFaceAttr = attributes();
     QString fontFamily = fontFaceAttr.value(QLatin1String("font-family")).toString();
-    const QStringView unitsPerEmStr = fontFaceAttr.value(QLatin1String("units-per-em"));
+    const auto unitsPerEmStr = fontFaceAttr.value(QLatin1String("units-per-em"));
 
     qreal unitsPerEm = unitsPerEmStr.toDouble();
     if (qFuzzyIsNull(unitsPerEm))
@@ -340,14 +340,14 @@ void VSvgFontReader::SetFontFace(VSvgFont *font)
         unitsPerEm = 1000;
     }
 
-    const QStringView ascentStr = fontFaceAttr.value(QLatin1String("ascent"));
+    const auto ascentStr = fontFaceAttr.value(QLatin1String("ascent"));
     qreal ascent = ascentStr.toDouble();
     if (qFuzzyIsNull(ascent))
     {
         ascent = 800;
     }
 
-    const QStringView descentStr = fontFaceAttr.value(QLatin1String("descent"));
+    const auto descentStr = fontFaceAttr.value(QLatin1String("descent"));
     qreal descent = descentStr.toDouble();
     if (qFuzzyIsNull(descent))
     {
@@ -392,9 +392,9 @@ void VSvgFontReader::SetFontFace(VSvgFont *font)
 //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 void VSvgFontReader::ParseSvgGlyph(VSvgFontEngine *engine, const QXmlStreamAttributes &glyphAttr)
 {
-    QStringView uncStr = glyphAttr.value(QLatin1String("unicode"));
-    QStringView havStr = glyphAttr.value(QLatin1String("horiz-adv-x"));
-    QStringView pathStr = glyphAttr.value(QLatin1String("d"));
+    auto uncStr = glyphAttr.value(QLatin1String("unicode"));
+    auto havStr = glyphAttr.value(QLatin1String("horiz-adv-x"));
+    auto pathStr = glyphAttr.value(QLatin1String("d"));
 
     QChar unicode = (uncStr.isEmpty()) ? u'\0' : uncStr.at(0);
     qreal havx = (havStr.isEmpty()) ? -1 : havStr.toDouble();