[Development] Use of Standard Library containers in Qt source code

[Jake Petroules]

I always find it hilarious how people start debates about UTF-8 vs UTF-16 in string APIs. Let us not forget that in an ideal world, the QString API wouldn't expose the underlying encoding *at all*, and it would be an implementation detail unknown to users.

See Swift's String class for example: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=30

If you're thinking in terms of code units instead of in terms of grapheme clusters, you don't truly understand Unicode. And also end up with historical radioactive waste like UTF-16.

On Jul 12, 2016, at 5:58 AM, charleyb123 . <charleyb123 at gmail.com<mailto:charleyb123 at gmail.com>> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:47 AM, Marco Bubke <Marco.Bubke at qt.io<mailto:Marco.Bubke at qt.io>> wrote:

<snip>, Lets face it, the world is much bigger than Qt, and I think there is much to gain if we integrate better with alien libraries.

My understanding is that most alien libraries are not binary-based (i.e., they are ternary or use other forms of multi-valued-logic (MVL)).

;-))

--charley

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