[Qt-interest] QString::fromLocal8Bit vs locales

[Imre PÉNTEK]

Hello,

and thank you for your answer.

péntek 19 augusztus 2011 17:47:27 dátummal Thiago Macieira az alábbiakat írta:
> You forgot QCoreApplication.
Well, I didn't forgot. I can't tell how and why a QCoreApplication would help 
me, but anyways I modified my code like this:
--- main.cpp.old        2011-08-20 10:07:50.231971947 +0200
+++ main.cpp    2011-08-20 10:05:30.316945836 +0200
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 #include <QTextCodec>
 #include <QTextStream>
+#include <QCoreApplication>
 
 #define MYPRINT(x) {const char *p=reinterpret_cast<const char 
*>(x);write(1,p,strlen(p));}
 
-int main()
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
+  QCoreApplication app(argc,argv);
+
   char be[1024];
   QTextStream out(stdout,QIODevice::WriteOnly);
   ssize_t l=read(0,be,1023);

now at least both fromLocal8Bit and fromUtf8 works when native charset is 
UTF-8. However when native charset is Latin-2 none of them are correct. 
FromLocal8Bit now only deals with ascii characters:

input was:    e9e1fbf5faf6fcf3ed616c6d6166610a, éáűőúöüóíalmafa
fromLocal8Bit:616c6d6166610a, almafa
fromUtf8:     
efbfbdefbfbdefbfbdefbfbdefbfbdefbfbdefbfbdefbfbdefbfbd616c6d6166610a, 
[garbage]almafa
-- 
With regards: Imre Péntek
E-Mail: pentek.imre at gmail.com