[Development] Shall we turn on /utf-8 compiler option when build qt for Windows?

[Simon, Hausmann]

Making a warning go away for compilers that we know support utf-8 may not come at the price of your life :)


I for one am all in favor of requiring just the Qt source code (not talking about customer code) to be encoded in a 24 year

old standard and add all the necessary flags to the compilers to make them understand it instead of producing a warning.


We practically support three different front-ends: GCC, clang and MSVC. All three - MSVC with the help of an option - can

grok UTF-8. Let's use it at least inside Qt :)


Simon

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From: Development <development-bounces+simon.hausmann=qt.io at qt-project.org> on behalf of Viktor Engelmann <viktor.engelmann at qt.io>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 12:06:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [Development] Shall we turn on /utf-8 compiler option when build qt for Windows?


Am 30.01.2017 um 11:40 schrieb Giuseppe D'Angelo:
> Il 30/01/2017 11:35, Viktor Engelmann ha scritto:
>> As far as I can see, all our codes *are* UTF-8 encoded (a least they
>> should be, IMHO), so why would we sneak our UTF8 in behind it's back (in
>> 2017!) instead of just telling the compiler the encoding we are using?
> So *all* of our compilers happily support UTF-8 encoded sources?

I wouldn't bet my life on that (especially not for windows!)

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