Hey guys We have a plain text indexing plugin in KFileMetaData. It gives the plain text of any file whose mimetype beings with 'text/'. We used to use QString::fromUtf8 to convert this into a string. However, this may not be ideal as a different encoding can exist.
I've just written a patch to use the system codec and if the conversion fails, to abort. Does anyone have an opinions on this? I'm slightly conflicted. Reasons for doing this: If we cannot correctly convert it to text, we're just indexing garbage. This often happens with a binary file getting detected as text. [1]. -- Vishesh Handa [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342312
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