Doc: default encoding set to UTF-8 in text editor

UTF-8 is required by Qt 5.

Change-Id: I7750b337296c8edf997d2610cca126530f737c37
Reviewed-by: Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger@digia.com>
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Leena Miettinen
2013-04-16 13:51:33 +02:00
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\section2 File Encoding
To define the default file encoding, select the desired encoding in
\gui {Default encoding}. By default, \QC uses the file encoding
used by your system.
To define the default file encoding, select a suitable option in
\gui {Default encoding}.
Qt 5 requires UTF-8 encoded source files, and therefore the default
encoding was changed from \gui System to \gui UTF-8 in \QC version 2.6.
Detecting the correct encoding is tricky, so \QC will not try to do so.
Instead, it displays the following error message when you try to edit a file
that is not UTF-8 encoded: \gui {Error: Could not decode "filename" with
"UTF-8"-encoding. Editing not possible.}
To resolve the issue, use a file conversion tool such as
\l{http://recode.progiciels-bpi.ca/index.html}{Recode} to convert the file
encoding to UTF-8 when developing Qt 5 applications. Otherwise, conversion
of string constants to QStrings might not work as expected.
If you develop only Qt 4 applications or other than Qt applications, you
can set other encoding options as the default encoding. Select the
\gui System option to use the file encoding used by your system.
*/