[Qt-interest] Non-Ascii filenames with QFile

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Quarta-feira 10. Fevereiro 2010, às 17.35.36, Santosh Puranik escreveu:
> I do not think that is the problem, even if I use fromUtf8() as above, I 
> still have the same issue. I'll explain my actual use case in more detail:
> 
> 1) We get the filename from a PC over USB.
> 2) The strings that we receive are encoded in UTF-16 LE. So, we make a 
> path out of this: QString filePath = QString(<Root path>) + 
> QString::fromUtf16(<raw UTF-16 LE data>).
> 3) Then create that file with QFile: QFile f(filePath); 
> f.open(QIODevice::ReadWrite).
> 4) And this still fails.
> 
> The problem IMO is in when QT tries to encode the file path to the 
> system locale's charset ... which is not UTF-8 on my system:
> 
> ~ $ locale charmap
> ANSI_X3.4-1968

Qt considers any file name that falls outside the system locale to be filesystem 
corruption.

If you wish to access non-ASCII file names, you must not use ASCII as locale.

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