[Development] utf-8 BOM and parsers

[Frank Osterfeld]

On 14 Apr 2014, at 14:26, Simon Hausmann <simon.hausmann at digia.com> wrote:
> 
> Since this affects not just one place but many (and for example we have many 
> copies of the QML lexer around), I'd like to determine what the _correct_ fix 
> for this issue is, because frankly speaking I don't know :). However I have an 
> interest in the same fix being applied to qtbase, qtdeclarative, qtscript, 
> qtcreator and other affected modules.

Even more critical, this behavioural change won’t only affect Qt modules, but also a lot of customer code, which cannot be fixed by us.
Which makes me wonder if such a be a change between 5.2 and 5.3 is acceptable at all. Was it intentional or an unintended side-effect? I can’t find any discussion about the issue.

> 3) I noticed that QString::fromUtf8() differs from QTextCodec in this aspect. 
> Is that intentional?

That inconsistency makes it even more confusing to me.

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