[Development] FW: Backwards compatibiltiy break in Qt 5.5

[Knoll Lars]

On 27/07/15 18:52, "development-bounces+lars.knoll=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org on behalf of Thiago Macieira" <development-bounces+lars.knoll=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org on behalf of thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>On Monday 27 July 2015 19:49:15 NIkolai Marchenko wrote:
>> If we are to believe Thiago, every developer that needs to see trace
>> information from an old code, now needs to edit all of his qDebug()'ed
>> instances to use qPrintable. Yes, all of them. However much there is,
>> manually, one by one.
>
>You need to qualify this as "every developer who wants to see the string 
>printed without the quotes and escaping". This reduces your "every developer" 
>to maybe 5% of them, probably less.

I think you underestimate this. We have a huge amount of developers in non latin countries and for everybody doing development in these countries this is a very common problem.

Cheers,
Lars