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

[Thiago Macieira]

On sexta-feira, 25 de maio de 2012 06.27.05, lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
> 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.

If we are reading the .pro file as Latin 1 and we encode the filenames as Latin 
1 when calling the POSIX functions, it will work just fine. So I don't see a 
problem on Linux.

As for Windows, writing an 8-bit path is a mess anyway. Is the .pro file 
supposed to be encoded in UTF-8 or in the Windows legacy ANSI encoding?

> 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.

I agree: we'd assume that the encoding of the .pro file is UTF-8.

However, at this point I'd simply recommend ignoring the problem. Let's not 
try and modify qmake any than we really must for getting 5.0 out.

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