[Development] Why can't QString use UTF-8 internally?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 11 February 2015 04:05:02 Konstantin Ritt wrote:
> Previously you said QString::data() must return QChar* (and not a generic
> uchar*), so that QString with an adaptive storage would have to silently
> convert the internal encoding into the one represented by QChar.
> If QString has a UCS-4 indexes and length() that counts the amount of UCS-4
> codepoints, one would expect QString::data() to return UCS-4*, right?

Right.

But the question stands: what's the advantage in doing that over doing UTF-16, 
which is what we already have.

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