[Development] Heads-up (dev): carving up corelib/tools/ in qtbase

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 7 June 2019 09:23:22 PDT Konstantin Ritt wrote:
> I doubt QByteArray really fits "text" scope.

Yes, it does. It's our main class for managing 8-bit strings and it has a few 
text manipulation functions, like toUpper().

> As for QLocale, I think it is a material for the "unicode" scope; same for
> QUnicodeTools, QUnicodeTables, QTextBoundaryFinder and maybe BiDi impl from
> QtGui.

I'd keep those alongside QString. And Q TEXT Boundary Finder is also the 
reason why I suggested "text" for the directory.


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