Quoting Koehne Kai <kai.koe...@digia.com>: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia....@qt-project.org >> >> [...] >> Of course, this feature should be disabled per default for compatibility >> reasons, unless you say we don't have guarantees for the actual format of >> qDebug output (I mean, it's for debugging, isn't it?); in this case >> I'd even say >> that escaping should be enabled per default, leading to less confusion / >> frustration. > > I doubt any sane application on the assumption how QDebug formats > QByteArray's with 0's in it :)
Well, I thought about not only escaping the null char but also other non-printable chars and maybe even the double quote char. Ideally, the output is a valid C string literal (ideal in my opinion at least). This can be discussed for QBA and QString separately. Typically you don't have null chars in a QString and _most_ strings only contain printable chars (except '\n'), yet when you debug them (again, that's what qDebug & friends are about), you want to see the raw content and see differences between encodings of the same (looking) text. This has already been discussed in the mailing list recently, but I've lost the overview. Summarizing, I'd find it very useful if we can modify the behavior of qDebug to the needs of the developer. There are different scenarios in which s/he wants to debug strings differently. I know, converting QString to QBA makes sense if you want to take a deep look into the raw content, but that also requires some knowledge of UTF encoding (and requires null chars of QBA to not truncate the output). Maybe even some Qt::EscapeFooBar flags make sense, e.g. Qt::EscapeNull, Qt::EscapeNonPrintable, Qt::EscapeCString, etc., and .noescape() == .escape(Qt::EscapeNothing) > So yeah, let's just fix it. Can you create a bug report, so it's not > forgotten? I'll write a bug report around the weekend. Regards, Sebastian _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
