[Development] Should we change the default codec of QTextStream to UTF-8?

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 5/24/12 11:38 PM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

>On quinta-feira, 24 de maio de 2012 13.15.16, 1+1=2 wrote:
>> If we want to bootstrap tool such as qmake support utf8
>
>Why would we want to?

One reason could be paths/filenames that are encoded in the .pro file. If
we interpret it as latin1, we can't support international filenames.

And we are now assuming utf8 for all our C++ and QML source code. One
could argue that assuming the same encoding for .pro files would be only
consistent.

Cheers,
Lars