[Development] RFC: Proposal for a semi-radical change in Qt APIs taking strings

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:15:55AM +0000, Knoll Lars wrote:
> >> >> A: Once QString is backed by UTF-8, [...]
> 
> It’s worthwhile discussing, but any such change would have huge
> implications on our QString API.
> 
indeed.

> In any case, it’s nothing we can do in Qt 5.
>
i don't think this is true. see
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2015-February/020111.html
and the surrounding discussion.