Hi, I think adding
CONFIG += no_utf8_source to your qmake project should help. > On 9. Jul 2021, at 03:26, Mike Chinander <chinan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does it let you remove the utf-8 option? > >> QMAKE_CXXFLAGS -= /utf-8 > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 8:20 PM David M. Cotter <d...@kjams.com> wrote: > all my source code was originally written on mac in the late 90's early > aughts. (of course more written since, but using same source file text > encoding) > > it's a monumental project, with localizations in about over half a dozen > languages > > all the source code, and therefore the in-line strings are "MacRoman" text > encoding: strings have curly quotes, and ellipsis, and who knows what else > non-ascii characters > > this worked just fine up 'till Qt 5, the windows compiler would would just > swallow the MacRoman strings and they would show up in the ui, properly > localized (i use my own localization subsystem) > > but with Qt6, the msdev compiler chokes on all my non-ascii strings. > > come to find out Qt6 is passing "/source-charset:utf-8" to the compiler. > how did i find out? > > cuz i tried to explicitly pass "/source-charset:.10000" in my .pro file, like > this: > >> QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += /source-charset:.10000 > > but then i get an error saying this: >> cl : Command line error D8016 : '/source-charset:.10000' and '/utf-8' >> command-line options are incompatible > > so what gives? has qt6 taken away my right to decide the encoding of my own > files? > > i have THOUSANDS of files. and if i change the strings, that is a very big > cost relating to re-translating them for localization. > > and no, before you suggest it, i can't convert the sources to utf8 encoding > either, cuz that would break a lot of other stuff. > > how do i fix this? > > -dave > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest