[Qt-interest] QFileInfoList and UTF-8

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
>> What am I missing from the call to entryInfoList ? I am trying to use
>> a 3rd party library which expect filenames to be specified as UTF-8.
>
> You can't assume the local filesystem uses UTF-8.  You need to use
> QString::fromLocal8Bit():
>
>   QDir dir( QString::fromLocal8Bit(dirname) );


Fantastic ! Thanks so much !

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Mathieu