[Interest] Question about QTextStream and codecs

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 25 May 2017 08:26:50 PDT Murphy, Sean wrote:
> So I have it all working, I'm just trying to understand why the explicit
> call to setCodec() was necessary on the writing end, but didn't appear to
> be required on the input end?

QTextStream defaults to::
* codec: the locale's codec
* autoDetectUnicode: true

Obviously, the auto detection only works on *reading*. So my conclusion is:

a) your system's locale is not UTF-8. If you're on any Unix system, you should 
check your settings. If you're on Windows, that's normal.

b) your input XML file has a UTF-8 BOM.

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