QSettings encodes QVariants as @Type(data) strings. If that data contains
a null-byte, we write the string as UTF-8 encoded CFData. When reading it
back we look for a @ prefix, and then pass it as UTF-8 through stringToVariant.
The problem arises then the user writes raw QByteArrays with a @ prefix.
We can detect this situation by checking the result of stringToVariant,
and if it's just a simple conversion of the string into a QVariant, we
know that stringToVariant hit its fallback path due to not finding any
embedded variants.
If that's the case, we return the raw bytes as a QByteArray.
Pick-to: 6.2 6.1 5.15 5.12
Change-Id: I4ac5c35d0a6890ebea983b9aca0a3a36b0143de2
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
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