[Development] QLocale work

[John Layt]

On Wednesday 18 Jan 2012 13:21:24 lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
> On 1/18/12 12:35 PM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> >On Wednesday, 18 de January de 2012 00.47.31, John Layt wrote:

> >> Other classes call public QLocale methods for number symbols like
> >> decimalPoint() and negativeSign() to use in their own custom
> >>char-at-a-time
> >> parse/format routines which will cause an issue as ICU / CLDR define
> >>these
> >> symbols as strings and not chars.
> 
> I think we need to change the QLocale API here. IIRC there are a few
> locales where the decimal point is more than one char. The only safe thing
> is a QString, but we might want to also offer a lower level API that gives
> a const QChar * pointer and a length.

Yep, it's marked as API needing to change in Qt5, I just need to change the 
code that calls it in QTextStream and QSpinBox first.  I suspect QSpinBox 
doesn't really need the low level parse access and can use QLocale directly, 
but QTextStream will probably still need its own parser.

John.