[Qt-interest] QXmlStreamWriter not adding encoding attribute.

[JD Guzman]

Thanks everyone for your responses.  It's probably my fault but the documentation on QXmlStreamWriter seemed rather vague on this front.  Reading through it, I interpreted it as saying that UTF-8 was used by default in all cases unless changed explicitly.  It also made it seem that encoding is always presented in the end result.

In the end I switched to QByteArray and all is good.  The consumer for this particular piece of xml has to have the encoding attribute set otherwise I wouldn't have really cared.

Regards,

JD

On 17 May 2011, at 08:37, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> 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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