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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 18 November 2019 17:05:29 CET Lars Knoll wrote:
> > On 18 Nov 2019, at 17:00, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> 
> No, it’s not a hard requirement. And especially for low end embedded
> systems, we also want to keep it that way.

But we should not keep the our codecs (aside from the UTF ones) because of 
that.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products