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-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