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

[Konstantin Ritt]

>
> > You're misrepresenting the argument. QString doesn't support other
> encodings
> > because UTF-16 is the best for the task at hand and we have too much
> legacy to
> > support. Because of that, QCollator only supports UTF-16.
>
> I buy the legacy argument but I don't buy that utf 16 is the best
> encoding. I think because of legacy we cannot change QString but I think we
> should still support UTF 8 better.
>

So what? This doesn't change the fact UTF-16 has advantages over UTF-8 and
thus QString's backing storage is UTF-16 - and won't be changed to anything
else.


Konstantin
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