PATCH: Add unicode/UTF-8 support to SIDE

pedward

Attached is a patch that makes SIDE properly open and save UTF-8 encoded Unicode files. I was able to load and save the sample text from the other thread.

pedward

Terminal needs some work to display Unicode properly. Right now it's processing input 1 byte at a time. Due to the escape handling, it will need to be UTF-8 aware, which doesn't look like a big problem. I'll work on this tomorrow.

jazzed

I just noticed this. Great++

My openFileName change is a little different. The saveFile change was identical.
Pros or cons? Seems like we don't need to use QByteArray for this approach.

             QTextStream in(&file);
+            in.setCodec("UTF-8");
             data = in.readAll();

If you look at the terminal that frees me up to do other things.
I'll push my current console.cpp change which is a little more manageable.

Let me know if you need anything.
Send your gmail account on PM and I'll add you to contributors.

Thanks!
--Steve

pedward

If that works, great! I was working from the approach that UTF-8 is 8bit and all of the handlers needed to be 8-bit clean. However, if Qt has "smart" UTF-8 handling, as long as that works, I don't see any reason not to use that.