What is QString::toUtf8 doing?

Question

This may sounds like a obvious question, but I\'m missing something about either how UTF-8 is encoded or how the toUtf8 function works.

Let\'s look at a very simple

Answer 1

Running your code I get expected result

"4dc3bc6c6c6572"

I think the problem is with your input not output. Check the encoding of your source file and look at void QTextCodec::setCodecForCStrings ( QTextCodec * codec ) [static]