Special characters and KLauncher

[Thomas Zander]

On Monday 08 October 2007 13:45:59 Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > QUrl::toEncoded() should be returning ASCII-only characters. Why is
> > fromLatin1() failing? What was the QByteArray that was returned by
> > toEncoded()?
>
> toEncoded() is just wrong (from Qt assistant):
>
> "The user info, path and fragment are all converted to UTF-8, and all
> non-ASCII characters are then percent encoded."
>
> That means that our special characters are killed down by this method and
> we just lose the ability of accessing those files.

More likely is that the original url was not proper utf8 and therefore the ó 
was lost in the first step as it was illegal utf8. It should have been 
coverted to %f3, naturally.

-- 
Thomas Zander
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