[Interest] Qt6 porting guidance: (MSDEV) QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += /source-charset

[David M. Cotter]

does anyone have any idea about this? please?

> On Jul 9, 2021, at 12:38 PM, David M. Cotter <dave at kjams.com> wrote:
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>> Please note that you can choose to use a different source character set, but since Qt 5.0, the 8-bit strings passed to QString must be UTF-8. This is not configurable any more, like it used to be.
> yes, i'm not constructing any QStrings using the file encoding. all my strings are handled internally (converted from MacRoman to utf16), and only sent to QString when i need that at the very edge of a GUI API.  at that time they are converted from my internal rep (utf16) to utf8, then to QString
> 
>> Moreover, since 6.0, the locale character set on Unix systems
> this is a windows system
> 
> -dave
>