[Qt-interest] QXmlStreamWriter not adding encoding attribute.

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 17 de May de 2011 09:00:30 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Why not? If you look into the XML standard you'll notice that no
> encoding attribute means the encoding of the file has to be utf-8. So
> adding an explicit encoding attribute that states this would be
> redundant.
> 
> If you change the encoding to something other than utf-8 the writer
> should add the encoding attribute.

Andreas is technically right, of course.

But his answer is not the reason for the missing encoding. The encoding is 
missing because the XML was saved to a QString, for which the encoding is 
specified by construction: UTF-16.

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