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authorRobin Burchell <robin+qt@viroteck.net>2012-01-30 14:23:22 +0200
committerQt by Nokia <qt-info@nokia.com>2012-02-22 14:00:32 +0100
commit186692f81f2612c3cf3a4090cbf949f2fb1558f8 (patch)
treee4506e520a88a1c75086516a1edeb1ab2fb4d057 /src/corelib/kernel
parent9d173c92183c30144e8bd4f115b2cd93c3da0d40 (diff)
Remove custom text codec for C strings.
This setting is extremely harmful, as code cannot know whether or not to expect it. It also made the behaviour of QString::fromAscii and ::toAscii unintuitive, and caused a lot of people to make mistakes with it. Change-Id: I2f429fa7ef93bd75bb93a7f64c56db15b7283388 Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/corelib/kernel')
-rw-r--r--src/corelib/kernel/qvariant.cpp6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/kernel/qvariant.cpp b/src/corelib/kernel/qvariant.cpp
index 4e7fd94141..9f57cd018c 100644
--- a/src/corelib/kernel/qvariant.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/kernel/qvariant.cpp
@@ -1162,8 +1162,8 @@ QVariant::QVariant(QDataStream &s)
\fn QVariant::QVariant(const char *val)
Constructs a new variant with a string value of \a val.
- The variant creates a deep copy of \a val, using the encoding
- set by QTextCodec::setCodecForCStrings().
+ The variant creates a deep copy of \a val into a QString assuming
+ UTF-8 encoding on the input \a val.
Note that \a val is converted to a QString for storing in the
variant and QVariant::type() will return QMetaType::QString for
@@ -1171,8 +1171,6 @@ QVariant::QVariant(QDataStream &s)
You can disable this operator by defining \c
QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII when you compile your applications.
-
- \sa QTextCodec::setCodecForCStrings()
*/
#ifndef QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII