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

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 24 de abril de 2012 15.36.24, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 April 2012 14:27:10 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > The question I have is: what shall we do with QString::fromAscii?
> 
> My personal preference would be to deprecate it.  The name is confusing
> compared to the others that explicitly specify the encoding.

ASCII is an encoding, though to be clear of what we're talking about, I often 
write US-ASCII when I mean ANSI X3.4-1986.

In any case, deprecating is orthogonal to the behaviour. What should the 
function do?

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