On Wednesday 08 October 2014 09:44:56 Tomasz Siekierda wrote: > On Tuesday 07 October 2014 23:31:11 Christoph Feck wrote: > > We are using the same hack in KDE4Libs, but it relies on > > QFile::setDecodingFunction. Unfortunately, this function is no longer > > available in Qt5, so in a few years, we will see the same long > > discussion as in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165044 > > Thank you for that link, I've read through the whole discussion, and I > have to say I had no idea this problem can be that serious; I don't > think I've ever encountered it myself. But it seems to be rather > widespread and even made some people frustrated enough to stop using > KDE :-(
It isn't that widespread. This used to be more of a problem in 2003 when Linux started to move from Latin1 and Latin9 to UTF-8. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
