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

[Lars, Knoll]

On 30 Jan 2017, at 12:23, Simon, Hausmann <Simon.Hausmann at qt.io<mailto:Simon.Hausmann at qt.io>> wrote:


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 :)

+1. Let’s enable it.

Btw, this had actually been planned for Qt 5.0. Unfortunately we couldn’t implement it back then, as MSVC was not allowing us to set the input encoding to utf8.

Cheers,
Lars


Simon
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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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