[KevinH]

Next I edited sigil_clips.ini and changed the 22nd entry to:

22\Name=Krishna
22\Text=K\x1e5b\x1e63\x1e47\x61

Then edited Sigil/src/MiscEditors/ClipEditorModel.cpp and added the call to set the ini codec to utf-8:

void ClipEditorModel::LoadData(const QString &filename, QStandardItem *item)
{
    SettingsStore *settings;

    if (filename.isEmpty()) {
	settings = new SettingsStore(m_SettingsPath);
    } else {
        settings = new SettingsStore(filename);
    }

    settings->setIniCodec("UTF-8");

    int size = settings->beginReadArray(SETTINGS_GROUP);

Then fired up Sigil and opened the Clips view window and selected Krishna and it properly pasted in:

Kṛṣṇa

And then I used the clips editor to create and save a new Krishna2 clip and exited out of Sigil and went and looked at the sigil_clips.ini file and saw the following:

22\Name=Krishna
22\Text=K\x1e5b\x1e63\x1e47\x61
23\Name=Krishna2
23\Text=K\x1e5b\x1e63\x1e47\x61

So setting the codec of the ini file to utf-8 was NOT enough to get it to save the ini file as a utf-8 encoded file.

So so all of this testing may be in vain. I will take a closer look at the code that loads data and saves data in these models to see if I can see what is going on.

KevinH