[Qt-creator] "Editing not possible" solution

[Harri Pasanen]

Hi,

utf-8 is fine for Asian languages.

It is much easier to mandate a source encoding than try to deal with many.
iconv is your friend there, use that to convert your files to utf-8 in 
the command line.

Once you have many, things like source repository browsers, web viewers 
etc. all run into problems.

Personally I think it is misguided effort to add support for multiple 
encodings in Qt Creator.

Just my 2 cents,

Harri



On 01/21/2015 09:36 PM, Pawel wrote:
> Hi Tobias and all,
>
> Thanks for all responses.
>
> I've tried my solution on my source code, and it works well so far, 
> although a bit slower.
> So if it cannot be merged I will keep applying it privately.
>
> I only wonder how other tools are able to cope with all files 
> (Notepad++, vim , eclipse)? I mean they don't fully recognize 
> decoding, but you are able to edit and save files and this is all I 
> need. I will investigate Notepad++ source code and see.
>
> I know that it would be best if all people use utf8, but the world 
> isn't perfect, and you can see comments in some Asian language in 
> source code ;)
>
> best regards
> Pawel
>
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 07:38:10 +0100, Tobias Hunger 
> <tobias.hunger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi Pawel,
>
>     Am 20.01.2015 23:48 schrieb "Pawel" <pawelfaron87 at wp.pl
>     <mailto:pawelfaron87 at wp.pl>>:
>     > I've implemented simple code to help a bit. It is located in
>     textdocument.cpp, and differs from current solution with:
>     >
>     > - [Current solution] In functions read() when decoding with
>     default codec fails we return error.
>     > - [My Solution] In functions read() when decoding with default
>     codec fails I try all available codecs
>     (QTextCodec::availableCodecs()), and if any one success I return
>     success.
>     >
>     > What do you think about this?
>
>     I am afraid that our approach is the only one that will not
>     silently mess up your code. All others will work most of the time
>     and then suddenly break things.
>
>     An IDE should not do that, ever.
>
>     > Full code can be reviewed here:
>     > https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/104124/
>
>     Thank you for the patch! I do not think that it should be applied,
>     but I appreciate the work you put in.
>
>     PS: Is this an issue still? Qt5 requires all files to be utf8
>     encoded anyway, and AFAIK so do other big C++ libs. So maybe it
>     would make more sense to make your team mates standardized on utf8.
>
>     Best Regards,
>     Tobias
>
>
>
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