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authorLars Knoll <lars.knoll@nokia.com>2012-06-25 12:47:51 +0200
committerQt by Nokia <qt-info@nokia.com>2012-06-25 23:39:27 +0200
commita1f9149ac75f08877074d4898399b46943eb9cd2 (patch)
treeed5f5872ddf6d80e1365bddbc7b6f979f03afabb /src
parentafdce18f576adfb68eb381d1864e50580ed08786 (diff)
Small documentation fix about the text streams default encoding.
It's UTF-8, not Latin1 on most systems nowadays. Only Windows still living in the past... Change-Id: I70f1bd7a49bed6dcc8e39bbc0f0613475791afdb Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/corelib/io/qfile.cpp4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qfile.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qfile.cpp
index 193ebe96b8..22b8ae5d2d 100644
--- a/src/corelib/io/qfile.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/io/qfile.cpp
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ QAbstractFileEngine *QFilePrivate::engine() const
QTextStream takes care of converting the 8-bit data stored on
disk into a 16-bit Unicode QString. By default, it assumes that
- the user system's local 8-bit encoding is used (e.g., ISO 8859-1
- for most of Europe; see QTextCodec::codecForLocale() for
+ the user system's local 8-bit encoding is used (e.g., UTF-8
+ on most unix based operating systems; see QTextCodec::codecForLocale() for
details). This can be changed using setCodec().
To write text, we can use operator<<(), which is overloaded to