[Development] Charset probleme

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Thomas PABST
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 1:50 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Development] Charset probleme
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Usually, for charsset problems we can use theses functions:
> 
> Qt Code:
> 
> 
> 
> 	QTextCodec <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qtextcodec.html>
> ::setCodecForTr(QTextCodec <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-
> 4.8/qtextcodec.html> ::codecForName("UTF-8"));
> 	QTextCodec <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qtextcodec.html>
> ::setCodecForLocale(QTextCodec <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-
> 4.8/qtextcodec.html> ::codecForName("UTF-8"));
> 	QTextCodec <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qtextcodec.html>
> ::setCodecForCStrings(QTextCodec <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-
> 4.8/qtextcodec.html> ::codecForName("UTF-8"));

Actually that method is gone in Qt 5. For the reasoning, read e.g.

http://www.macieira.org/blog/2012/05/source-code-must-be-utf-8-and-qstring-wants-it/

You seem to just switch from Qt 3 to Qt 4, but I think the argument still is sound: Just expect source code to be UTF-8 these days. 

(Well, actually Qt 4 will have 'Latin1' by default, but for your specific example that'll work too.)

> However, In my case for a porting Qt3 to Qt4 I have a global constant.
> 
> Qt Code:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 	const QString <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qstring.html>
> myVar = "text with accent é à è"
> 
> 
> In this case the string is interpreted by gcc. Is there any QT DEFINE to force
> use of UTF-8 ?

According to 

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Preprocessor-Options.html

you can specify -finput-charset=UTF-8 in your QMAKE_CXX_FLAGS.

Regards

Kai