QUrl::toLocalFile not working as exspected under Windows

[nightghost]

Consider the following Code:

QString path = "C:\\Development\\releases\\readme.txt";
 
qDebug() << "Original: " << path;
qDebug() << "As URL:   " << QUrl::fromLocalFile(path);
qDebug() << "Result:   " << QUrl::fromLocalFile(path).toLocalFile();

QString path = "C:\\Development\\releases\\readme.txt";

qDebug() << "Original: " << path;
qDebug() << "As URL:   " << QUrl::fromLocalFile(path);
qDebug() << "Result:   " << QUrl::fromLocalFile(path).toLocalFile();

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Real Output:

Original: "C:\Development\releases\readme.txt"
As URL: QUrl( "file:///C:/Development/releases/readme.txt" )
Result: "C:/Development/releases/readme.txt"

Exspected Output:

Original: "C:\Development\releases\readme.txt"
As URL: QUrl( "file:///C:/Development/releases/readme.txt" )
Result: "C:\Development\releases\readme.txt"

The path separator is not correct after the conversion. For Qt this is ok, because it can handle it, but if the path is used external this is a problem.

Is there a way to get arround this (except for using everytime replace("/", "\\") if a url is converted to a file path)

[spirit]

take a look at QDir::toNativeSeparators.