Problems saving a text file

[aarelovich]

Hi
I've written the following code

QString filename;
    filename = QFileDialog::getSaveFileName(this,"Choose where to save","","*.jobs");
    if (!filename.isEmpty()){
        QFile file(filename);
        if (file.open(QFile::WriteOnly)){
            QTextStream out(&file);
            out.setCodec("ISO 8859-1");
            out << ui->teScript->toPlainText();
            file.close();
        }
        else
            QMessageBox::critical(this,"Error opening file",filename + "\ncould not be opened",QMessageBox::Ok);
    }

QString filename;
    filename = QFileDialog::getSaveFileName(this,"Choose where to save","","*.jobs");
    if (!filename.isEmpty()){
        QFile file(filename);
        if (file.open(QFile::WriteOnly)){
            QTextStream out(&file);
            out.setCodec("ISO 8859-1");
            out << ui->teScript->toPlainText();
            file.close();
        }
        else
            QMessageBox::critical(this,"Error opening file",filename + "\ncould not be opened",QMessageBox::Ok);
    }

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Where teScript is a QTextEdit. So If I write something like (on the text edit, when executing the program):

Hello
my name is
John
Smith

and then I open the generated txt file (with notepad) i get every line concatenated with a strange square character in the middle.

So I was wondering how I could possibly fix this problem?
PS: The problem is in Windows.

[SudaNix]

change line 5 with this:

if (file.open(QFile::WriteOnly|QFile::Text))

if (file.open(QFile::WriteOnly|QFile::Text))

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[Lykurg]

just wondering: why are you using ISO 8859-1? If there is no real reason, I would change it to UTF-8. That could save you a lot of pain if you later need other languages used in your application...

[aarelovich]

Hi

I wasn't using the ISO standard. I added the line just to see if the problem was gone. As it turns out I didn't need to fix the problem.

But thanks for the answer.