[Development] RFC: Defaulting to or enforcing UTF-8 locales on Unix systems

[Kevin Kofler]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
> The codecs we want to remove are just big tables of mapping old, legacy
> codecs to UTF-16. We can easily remove those.
> 
> After that, removal of QTextCodec itself is not a big gain.

So let me ask once again: Is ICU not already a hard requirement for Qt on 
*nix systems? So why can we not just rely on ICU's tables?

        Kevin Kofler