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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-30068

QSettings can't work with INI files with BOM in the beginning

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    • 5.0.1
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    • Win7, Qt 5.0.1

      When we have INI files like this:

      foo.ini

      <0xEF 0xBB 0xBF>[MainSection]
MainKey1=11
MainKey2=22

[SecondSection]
SecondSectionKey1=33
SecondSectionKey2=44

      When we will try to work with this file in this way:

          QSettings  confFile(QLatin1String("d:/foo.ini"), QSettings::IniFormat);
    confFile.setIniCodec(QTextCodec::codecForName("UTF-8"));

    qDebug() << "groups" << confFile.childGroups();


    confFile.beginGroup(QLatin1String("SecondSection"));
    qDebug() << "keys (for secondary section)" << confFile.childKeys();
    confFile.endGroup();

    confFile.beginGroup(QLatin1String("MainSection"));
    qDebug() << "keys (for main section)" << confFile.childKeys();
    confFile.endGroup();

      we will got this output

      groups ("SecondSection")
      keys (for secondary section) ("SecondSectionKey1", "SecondSectionKey2")
      keys (for main section) ()

      But if we will remove BOM mark (in the beginning of file), we will get correct output:

      groups ("MainSection", "SecondSection")
      keys (for secondary section) ("SecondSectionKey1", "SecondSectionKey2")
      keys (for main section) ("MainKey1", "MainKey2")

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            peppe Giuseppe D'Angelo
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