char array incorrectly displayed as UTF-8 string

Consider following code:

int main()
{
   char const str1[] = "тест";

   return 0;
}

"str1" initialized with some non-ascii UTF-8 string.

By default Qt Creator displays strings as Latin-1 strings, so it's displayed as gibberish (see attached screenshot "char_array_default.png").

Qt Creator has convenient feature in debugger: change variable display format to treat it specially. For string-like types it's possible to select string encoding: Latin-1, UTF-8 or UCS-4.

The issue is that for char arrays this settings changes visualization from string type to array type, see attached screenshot "char_array_as_utf8.png"

Workaround to see "char[]" types as UTF-8 strings is to add expression evaluator, where convert "char[]" type to "char *", and select encoding for it.