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| author | Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt <eskil.abrahamsen-blomfeldt@qt.io> | 2016-12-12 13:35:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt <eskil.abrahamsen-blomfeldt@qt.io> | 2016-12-15 08:12:15 +0000 |
| commit | 3a9801d568e2f7d5a95ed4f5886a7f5062869456 (patch) | |
| tree | 8bb76a6c0809c183851b93e7bf7ec8b1b16c3d3b /src/gui | |
| parent | 39642fcc9e58926ed6a52009a2180a2d3a566c8e (diff) | |
doc: Specify which characters are replaced by toPlainText()
Some formatting characters are replaced by ASCII in the output
from toPlainText(). Since this is a bit inconsistent, we should
document it.
Task-number: QTBUG-57552
Change-Id: I46033588d37517056a8d4668d1d16d48c72ee1b5
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@qt.io>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/gui')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/gui/text/qtextdocument.cpp | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/gui/text/qtextdocument.cpp b/src/gui/text/qtextdocument.cpp index 0d05fee6ef..c006e7f427 100644 --- a/src/gui/text/qtextdocument.cpp +++ b/src/gui/text/qtextdocument.cpp @@ -1148,6 +1148,11 @@ void QTextDocument::setMetaInformation(MetaInformation info, const QString &stri Returns the plain text contained in the document. If you want formatting information use a QTextCursor instead. + Some formatting characters are replaced by ASCII equivalents. + In particular, no-break space (U+00A0) is replaced by a regular + space (U+0020), and both paragraph (U+2029) and line (U+2028) + separators are replaced by line feed (U+000A). + \note Embedded objects, such as images, are represented by a Unicode value U+FFFC (OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER). |