> -----Original Message----- > From: Interest <interest-bounces+kai.koehne=qt...@qt-project.org> On Behalf > Of Bertwim > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 10:42 AM > To: interest@qt-project.org > Subject: [Interest] QSettings keys > > Hi, > > I have a problem with understanding QSettings. I see that when the settings > are written back to file (ini-file, Linux) certain characters such as > <space>, ':' > (colon), etc, written in their hexadecimal encoding > (%20 for space, %3A for ':'). > When keys are read (from an ini file) these characters are read as expected, > but > writing them back gives this encoding. > Why is this, and -more importantly- Is there any way to prevent this, at least > have the normal printable ascii characters written back to file
This is documented behavior, see https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsettings.html#Format-enum Have you tried calling e.g. settings.setIniCodec("utf-8") ? Regards Kai _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
