[Development] char8_t summary?

[André Pönitz]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Mutz, Marc via Development wrote:
> On 2019-07-10 10:50, Arnaud Clere wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > So, do I understand correctly that:
> > 1. QUtf8String may be required in Qt7 to solve problems due to C++2x
> > char8_t
> 
> I wouldn't say required. I also don't think it needs to wait until Qt 7. Qt
> 7 is where we may depend on C++20 and can use char8_t in the interface and
> implementation, but we should certainly not wait for that to add the class.
> It's certainly a good idea, IMO, to have views and owning containers that
> operate on L1, UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings. The views are more important.
> 
> > 2. QByteArray methods currently operating on latin1 may be restricted
> > to ascii in Qt6 to avoid problems when const char* input really is
> > utf8
> 
> I have no opinion on that.
> 
> > 3. QLatin1String may become QLatin1StringView by Qt7
> 
> Qt 6. We can add the name as an alias now, make QLatin1String an owning
> container for Qt 6.0 (it breaks no code, just makes it slower, and the port
> is trivial), and QLatin1StringView becomes what QLatin1String is now.

As far as I understand there's a perceived need to have "full" utf8
literals, and there's a need to have ASCII literals. First could be
served by some QUtf8*, second by QAscii*, both additions, no need to
change QLatin* semantics.

Andre'