[Development] Feature Freeze Exception: QStringView

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 03/02/2017 13:48, Kevin Kofler ha scritto:
> We really need a plan to deprecate implicit casts between QString and ASCII. 
> They are not only the source of such inefficiencies from inexperienced or 
> lazy programmers, but also of encoding-related bugs. If you need to convert 
> between 8-bit encodings and QString, you should always use a function that 
> specifies the correct encoding for the context (e.g. fromLocal8Bit). If your 
> string is constant, you should use QStringLiteral.

This is all stuff that we already have and that nobody uses because we
fail at advertising it: QT_RESTRICTED_CAST_FROM_ASCII,
QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII, QT_ASCII_CAST_WARNINGS...

Cheers,
-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer
KDAB (UK) Ltd., a KDAB Group company | Tel: UK +44-1625-809908
KDAB - Qt, C++ and OpenGL Experts

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