[Development] Let's please drop MSVC 2013 for 5.10

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 16 June 2017 11:14:20 PDT André Pönitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 04:07:03PM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > character set. Without the /utf-8 option added in MSVC 2015 Update 2, the
> > conversion fails and the compiler prints:
> > 
> > warning C4566: character represented by universal-character-name '\u0431'
> > cannot be represented in the current code page (1252)
> > 
> > [ok, not a C++11 issue per se, but we still want to use Unicode source
> > code]
> There was never *consensus* on using something outside plain ASCII in
> Qt sources.
> 
> This is predicted, self-inflicted pain.

Right, we've had to live with ASCII-only sources for the last 25 years. We 
could wait a little longer.

I just don't want to!

Here's a tricky question: how do you create a QStringLiteral with non-ASCII 
characters that will work on all our supported compilers?

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center