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KevinH · 10-20-2023, 07:46 AM

I believe that Qt5 uses escaped Latin-1 character encoding (ISO-8859-1) not utf-8.
So to read it convert each \xXX to a byte with hex value XX and interpret it as the iso-8859-1 character it represents.

I have no idea what it does when there is no iso-8859-1 character equivalent.

10-20-2023, 07:46 AM	#22
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,736 Karma: 5446592 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	I believe that Qt5 uses escaped Latin-1 character encoding (ISO-8859-1) not utf-8. So to read it convert each \xXX to a byte with hex value XX and interpret it as the iso-8859-1 character it represents. I have no idea what it does when there is no iso-8859-1 character equivalent. Last edited by KevinH; 10-20-2023 at 07:54 AM.