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@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@
\endlist
\o \l{QDoc Configuration}
\list
- \o \l{General Variables}
+ \o \l{General Configuration Variables}
\o \l{Creating Help Project Files}
- \o \l{C++ Specific Variables}
- \o \l{HTML Specific Variables}
+ \o \l{C++ Specific Configuration Variables}
+ \o \l{HTML Specific Configuration Variables}
\o \l{Supporting Derived Projects}
\o \l{QDoc Compatibility}
\o \l{qt.qdocconf}
@@ -1425,6 +1425,7 @@
\quotefromfile examples/main.cpp
+ \skipto QApplication
\printline QApplication
This line includes the QApplication class
@@ -1652,6 +1653,7 @@
can press and release.
\quotefromfile examples/main.cpp
+ \skipto QApplication
\skipline QApplication
\printline QPushButton
@@ -6974,7 +6976,7 @@
\page 21-0-qdoc-configuration.html
\previouspage Title Commands
\contentspage QDoc Manual - Table of Contents
- \nextpage General Variables
+ \nextpage General Configuration Variables
\title QDoc Configuration
@@ -7094,9 +7096,9 @@
\section2 Categories
\list
- \o \l {General Variables}
- \o \l {C++ Specific Variables}
- \o \l {HTML Specific Variables}
+ \o \l {General Configuration Variables}
+ \o \l {C++ Specific Configuration Variables}
+ \o \l {HTML Specific Configuration Variables}
\endlist
\section1 Configuration File Examples
@@ -7133,7 +7135,7 @@
\contentspage QDoc Manual - Table of Contents
\nextpage Creating Help Project Files
- \title General Variables
+ \title General Configuration Variables
With the general QDoc configuration variables, you can define
where QDoc will find the various source files it needs to generate
@@ -7215,7 +7217,7 @@
QDoc originally used a hard-coded value of four spaces for
code indentation to ensure that code snippets could be easily
distinguished from surrounding text. Since we can use
- \l{HTML Specific Variables#HTML.stylesheets}{stylesheets} to
+ \l{HTML Specific Configuration Variables#HTML.stylesheets}{stylesheets} to
adjust the appearance of certain types of HTML elements, this
level of indentation is not always required.
@@ -7572,7 +7574,7 @@
\code
header.fileextensions += *.H
\endcode
-
+
\warning The above assignment may not work as described.
See also \l headerdirs.
@@ -7730,6 +7732,27 @@
bold font, and that \\raisedaster renders a '*'.
\row
+ \o \bold naturallanguage \target naturallanguage
+ \o \bold {The \c naturallanguage variable specifies the natural
+ language used for the documentation generated by qdoc.}
+
+ For example:
+
+ \code
+ naturallanguage = zh-Hans
+ \endcode
+
+ By default, the natural language is \c en for compatibility
+ with legacy documentation.
+
+ qdoc will add the natural language information to the HTML
+ it generates, using the \c lang and \c xml:lang attributes.
+
+ See also \l sourceencoding, \l outputencoding,
+ \l{http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_7}{C.7. The lang and xml:lang Attributes} and
+ \l{http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/#ri20040429.113217290}{Best Practice 13: Using Hans and Hant codes}.
+
+ \row
\o \bold outputdir \target outputdir
\o \bold {The \c outputdir variable specifies the directory
where QDoc will put the generated documentation.}
@@ -7754,6 +7777,31 @@
directory, all files from the previous run will be lost.
\row
+ \o \bold outputencoding \target outputencoding
+ \o \bold {The \c outputencoding variable specifies the encoding
+ used for the documentation generated by qdoc.}
+
+ For example:
+
+ \code
+ outputencoding = UTF-8
+ \endcode
+
+ By default, the output encoding is \c ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) for
+ compatibility with legacy documentation. When generating
+ documentation for some languages, particularly non-European
+ languages, this is not sufficient and an encoding such as UTF-8
+ is required.
+
+ qdoc will encode HTML using this encoding and generate the
+ correct declarations to indicate to browsers which encoding
+ is being used. The \l naturallanguage configuration variable
+ should also be specified to provide browsers with a complete
+ set of character encoding and language information.
+
+ See also \l outputencoding and \l naturallanguage.
+
+ \row
\o \bold outputformats \target outputformats
\o \bold {The \c outputformats variable specifies the format of
the generated documentation.}
@@ -7831,6 +7879,30 @@
See also \l sources and \l sources.fileextensions.
\row
+ \o \bold sourceencoding \target sourceencoding
+ \o \bold {The \c sourceencoding variable specifies the encoding
+ used for the source code and documentation.}
+
+ For example:
+
+ \code
+ sourceencoding = UTF-8
+ \endcode
+
+ By default, the source encoding is \c ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) for
+ compatibility with legacy documentation. For some languages,
+ particularly non-European languages, this is not sufficient
+ and an encoding such as UTF-8 is required.
+
+ Although qdoc will use the encoding to read source and
+ documentation files, limitations of C++ compilers may prevent
+ you from using non-ASCII characters in source code comments.
+ In cases like these, it is possible to write API documentation
+ completely in documentation files.
+
+ See also \l naturallanguage and \l outputencoding.
+
+ \row
\o \bold sources \target sources
\o \bold {The \c sources variable allows you to specify
individual source files in addition to those located in the
@@ -7973,9 +8045,9 @@
/*!
\page 22-creating-help-project-files.html
- \previouspage General Variables
+ \previouspage General Configuration Variables
\contentspage QDoc Manual - Table of Contents
- \nextpage C++ Specific Variables
+ \nextpage C++ Specific Configuration Variables
\title Creating Help Project Files
@@ -8023,9 +8095,9 @@
\page 23-qdoc-configuration-cppvariables.html
\previouspage Creating Help Project Files
\contentspage QDoc Manual - Table of Contents
- \nextpage HTML Specific Variables
+ \nextpage HTML Specific Configuration Variables
- \title C++ Specific Variables
+ \title C++ Specific Configuration Variables
The C++ specific configuration variables are provided to avoid
erroneous documentation due to non-standard C++ constructs.
@@ -8159,11 +8231,11 @@
/*!
\page 24-qdoc-configuration-htmlvariables.html
- \previouspage C++ Specific Variables
+ \previouspage C++ Specific Configuration Variables
\contentspage QDoc Manual - Table of Contents
\nextpage Supporting Derived Projects
- \title HTML Specific Variables
+ \title HTML Specific Configuration Variables
The HTML specific configuration variables define the generated
documentation's style, or define the contents of the
@@ -8289,7 +8361,7 @@
/*!
\page 25-qdoc-configuration-derivedprojects.html
- \previouspage HTML Specific Variables
+ \previouspage HTML Specific Configuration Variables
\contentspage QDoc Manual - Table of Contents
\nextpage QDoc Compatibility