[Qt-interest] QString::toLower() issues with two-byte chars

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

Øyvind Vågen Jægtnes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some problems using QString::toLower() on strings containing
> norwegian chars.
> 
> A simple test program:
> 
> #include <QtDebug>
> 
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>     qDebug() << QString("æøå").toLower();
>     return 0;
> }
> 

The QString(char *) constructor assumes that the c-style string is
ASCII. The above code is equivalent to
QString::fromAscii("æøå").toLower() which is not what you want.

So, do QString::fromUtf8("æøå") and then you will get expected results.

Girish