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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Detecting invalid encoded filenames (UTF-8 locale)
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-12-11 0:54:23
Message-ID: 200512102254.24592.thiago () kde ! org
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Sebastian Trueg wrote:
>> When we do QFile::decodeName on one such file, the resulting QString
>> contains some private characters that have no meaning outside Qt.
>
>Do you remember how I can find these?

They are in the 0xD800-0xDFFF range: each pair represents one character 
that wasn't converted correctly.

Also, remember this works ONLY in UTF-8 locales. Any other locale will not 
show this behaviour.

>yes, sure. But I still need to detect the invalid filenames so the user
> won't get some error in the burning process and files a bug report.

Take a look at QString to find out which range it uses in the surrogates 
(the D800-DFFF). In the future, QString could change to use surrogates 
for other purposes.

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