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| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp b/src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp index 54df8b1f61..6b3cb502e5 100644 --- a/src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp @@ -3220,12 +3220,16 @@ static QBasicMutex environmentMutex; Returns the value of the environment variable with name \a varName. To get the variable string, use QByteArray::constData(). + To convert the data to a QString use QString::fromLocal8Bit(). \note qgetenv() was introduced because getenv() from the standard C library was deprecated in VC2005 (and later versions). qgetenv() uses the new replacement function in VC, and calls the standard C library's implementation on all other platforms. + \warning Don't use qgetenv on Windows if the content may contain + non-US-ASCII characters, like file paths. + \sa qputenv(), qEnvironmentVariableIsSet(), qEnvironmentVariableIsEmpty() */ QByteArray qgetenv(const char *varName) |