On Monday 11 April 2016 12:57:35 Prav wrote: > Hi, Tomasz. > > > Prav, I think you misunderstand what 8bit and codec means here. > > ... > > However, your locale can be in UTF-8, in which some characters are 8 bit > > long ... > Agree. I already undestood from previous answers that locale can multibyte. > Let me rephare my question: > > Can locale be UTF-16 or any other 16- or 32-bit locale?
Windows is UTF-16. It has a 8-bit fall back encoding to which toLocal8bit converts the string. I don't know how toLocal8bit degrades on processors where a char is 16 or 32-bit long. I guess it makes sense to still output an array of "chars" in that case. On processors with 8-bit char, I certainly don't expect QString::toLocal8bit() to output a 16-bit or 32-bit array. That's the job of QString::toStdU16String() and QString::toStdU32String() or possibly QString::toStdWString(). Think of QString::toLocal8bit() as a mean of converting the internally UTF-16 encoded QString to whatever can be written to a 8-bit output device on the host computer. If you want to share your string with another computer, use QString::toUtf8(). Prav, you haven't told us your purpose (or I failed to spot it). If you simply want a numeric value to identify a single character, can you use QChar::unicode()? Frederic _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
