Automatic input encoding detection for Qt?
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While working with my text editor(*), I tried to implement the same sort of automatic input encoding detection system I have in my Python version. It detects input encoding using encoding errors:
[code]
decodings = [ "utf-8", "latin-1" ]
def decode(self, content):
for codec in self.decodings:
try:
content = unicode(content, codec)
except UnicodeDecodeError:
continue
return content
raise Exception("Unknown encoding: " + filename)
[/code]I searched Qt documentation, but I was not able to find out, how to detect encoding errors with QTextStream. Is there any way to detect the input file encoding with Qt?
(*) Now it can be found at gitorious: https://gitorious.org/moe - it is not exactly ready for co-operative development, but I try to fix the problems.