On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:34:45PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:39:36PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 23:20 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: > > > > I think this is what the Qt QString::toLocal8Bit() does. > > > > Yes, I think so, too. I wonder what the difference to QFile::encodeName() > > is? > > I think they perform the same task, except that you can use encodeName() > directly with a QFile object.
I checked the sources and it turned out that they are equivalent except on Mac, as shown from this excerpt from qfile.cpp: static QByteArray locale_encode(const QString &f) { #ifndef Q_OS_DARWIN return f.toLocal8Bit(); #else // Mac always expects UTF-8 return f.toUtf8(); #endif } ... void QFile::setEncodingFunction(EncoderFn f) { if (!f) f = locale_encode; QFilePrivate::encoder = f; } ... QByteArray QFile::encodeName(const QString &fileName) { return (*QFilePrivate::encoder)(fileName); } -- Enrico