KEncodingProber vs "unexisting" codecs

[David Faure]

On Friday 03 July 2015 01:18:33 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Question is, where do we want that? Do we want it on probing time so we
> don't  try to probe codecs that don't exist (for this installation), or
> should we actually mention in the docs that it may happen that the returned
> codec does not exist and thus you should check the result in the "caller"
> side?

Hmm, good point. If we get a "correct" result from the prober, but pointing to 
an unavailable codec, the user is screwed. If on the other hand we return a 
"second best guess" which is actually available, the user gets something.
It's not like we have knewstuff for codecs, recompiling Qt is a little bit out 
of scope for most users :-)
So I guess it should be checked at probing time.

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