[Qt-interest] Non-latin characters in QString and char * on Windows

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 3 de March de 2011 11:48:24 Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>     cout << fileNameArr.data() << '\n'
>             << fileNameStr << endl;
> 
[snip]
> 
> 
> On Windows I get two (identical) lines with broken Cyrillic characters and
> no "OK" On Linux I get two (identical) correct lines and "OK".
> 
> Any ideas?

Yes, "you're using Windows".

Remember that the command-prompt's window encoding is different from what 
Windows considers the "ANSI" encoding. Windows has two 8-bit encodings used in 
parallel: the DOS legacy codepage and the Windows non-Unicode API. So seeing 
something wrong in that listing isn't a problem.

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