[Development] QString::fromAscii & toAscii's future

[BRM]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Robin Burchell <robin+qt at viroteck.net>
> 2012/4/24 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
>>  My recommendation is a variant of options 3: we document that it accepts 
> only
>>  US-ASCII and that it has undefined behaviour when the input isn't 
> US-ASCII
>>  compliant. That way, we can make it be equal to toLatin1() and avoid having 
> to
>>  write code for checking the high bit.
> 
> I'd agree with that. I don't know what the pain of making it
> strict-ASCII would be in existing code (at least, I've seen it used
> far more often than I like), but we can teach people to use it
> properly at the very least.

Question: is there are reason not to support the US-Extended ASCII (128-255)?
I know it's not used often, but sometimes those characters are very useful.

Ben