From 990ec6d87232d2b8cea9d1809483f86a757d1acf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Louis Moureaux <m_louis30@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 04:55:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Ask QTextStream to decode text as UTF-8

Also allow wider Unicode encodings in case a BOM is present.

Closes #1692.

(cherry picked from commit 7ac42b09b77cad43e5ee4c1ef198d639edfae723)
---
 utility/inputfile.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/utility/inputfile.cpp b/utility/inputfile.cpp
index 7b8d9bbb3b..65f0bcaec3 100644
--- a/utility/inputfile.cpp
+++ b/utility/inputfile.cpp
@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ struct inputfile *inf_from_stream(QIODevice *stream,
   inf->filename.clear();
   inf->fp = stream;
   inf->stream = new QTextStream(stream);
+  inf->stream->setCodec("UTF-8");
+  inf->stream->setAutoDetectUnicode(true); // Allow UTF-16 and UTF-32
   inf->datafn = datafn;
 
   qCDebug(inf_category) << "opened" << inf_filename(inf) << "ok";