[Qbs] Heads up: codec support

[Иван Комиссаров]

Since Qt 6.8, the QtC company removed the compatibility module and QTextCodec support.

To be able to build Qbs with 6.8 we should need to remove usages of QTextCodec or replace it with another library.

Please notify us if you use TextFile service setCodec method https://doc.qt.io/qbs/jsextension-textfile.html#setcodec and what are your use-cases (namely, what encodings do you use).

We are deliberating if we should remove the codec support, limit it’s support to utf/system only (which is a breaking change) or find an alternative library for codecs.

Ivan
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