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

Viktor Engelmann viktor.engelmann at qt.io
Mon Jan 30 12:36:42 CET 2017



Am 30.01.2017 um 12:23 schrieb Simon, Hausmann:
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> Making a warning go away for compilers that we know support utf-8 may
> not come at the price of your life :)
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> 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.
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> We practically support three different front-ends: GCC, clang and
> MSVC. All three - MSVC with the help of an option - can
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> grok UTF-8. Let's use it at least inside Qt :)
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>
> Simon
>

personally, I want
- every file in the world converted to UTF8
- every software made compatible to UTF8
- compatibility to any other encoding removed from every software
- everyone burned at stake for heresy who says that any other encoding
has ever existed

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