[Development] Oslo, we have a problem</apollo 13> [char8_t]

[Konstantin Ritt]

пн, 8 июл. 2019 г., 5:44 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:

> On Sunday, 7 July 2019 23:26:40 -03 Konstantin Ritt wrote:
> > As we have string views now, I'd vote for deprecating the string
> > manipulation methods in QByteArray. I doubt we could make QByteArray a
> true
> > vector of bytes now, without breaking lots of the user code, but that
> could
> > be a good first step.
>
> We don't have any good 8-bit string manipulation functions outside of
> QByteArray. They stay.
>

We don't have any good 8-bit string manipulation functions in QByteArray
either ;)


> The question is whether the Latin1 methods (toUpper(), toLower() and the
> free
> function qstricmp) should be moved or removed. Those would work really
> well in
> QLatin1String, but QLatin1String is a view, since it doesn't own the data.
> QLatin1String::toUpper() could return a QByteArray...
>

Perhaps there is a particular reason for the user to manipulate binary data
as if it were a string? So give him that string, QString.



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