[Development] Using QCollator on different platforms, without ICU

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 13 de agosto de 2013 19:50:23, Aleix Pol wrote:
> It's not pretty and we'll probably want to iterate over the API, but here's
> the status:
> - icu: everything works wonderful. Unicorns.
> - posix: you can't select either the algorithm or any of the settings. It's
> using the system locale_t, so I don't think we can go much further.
> - mac: you can switch only some of the settings, others simply don't have
> an API mapping.
> - win: same as mac, but with different parts of the API.
> 
> Now we'd need some kind of discussion regarding what kind of API we'd like
> and how flexible we can be to API that has different behaviors depending on
> what settings it's compiled it (note that most platforms can have all
> posix, icu or their own), this way I'll know how to proceed.

Thanks for the investigation, Aleix.

I'm ok with a non-ICU build supporting only the system locale. Collation in 
the "C" is trivial, so we can implement that by ourselves.

However much I dislike common denominators, what is the common denominator API 
that we can provide in all platforms?
-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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