[Qt-interest] Have QXmlStreameWriter write the encoding information

[Marc Balmer]

Am 29.05.2009 um 16:13 schrieb Marc Balmer:

>
> Am 29.05.2009 um 15:40 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
>
>> On 29.05.09 14:19:57, Marc Balmer wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 29.05.2009 um 14:16 schrieb Marc Balmer:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> When I create a XML data stream using QXmlStreamWriter, my stream
>>>> starts with
>>>>
>>>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>>>>
>>>> How can I add the encoding information, so that I get
>>>>
>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>>>
>>> I forgot to add my code, so here is the snippet:
>>>
>>> QXmlStreamWriter xml(&xmlData);
>>> xml.setAutoFormatting(true);
>>> xml.setCodec("UTF-8");
>>> xml.writeStartDocument();
>>>
>>> xml.writeStartDocument() does not output the encoding information.
>>
>> Did you try with a different encoding? The reason it doesn't write  
>> the
>> encoding out could be that XML standard demands utf-8 to be used
>> during
>> parsing if no encoding attribute is set. Hence the xml writer just
>> avoids
>> "stating the obvious".
>
> that is not true.  If I set the codec to ISO-8859-1 and output Latin1
> data, it still
> does not write the encoding.

Soe does anyone on this list have an idea how I can get the encoding
information to be written?  Or is it time to file a bug report?

- Marc Balmer