[Development] QString and related changes for Qt 6

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 12 May 2020 02:04:35 PDT Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
> During the contributor summit we were talking about just assuming “foo” is
> utf-8, now that our source code is utf-8. Is that not possible?

We've been doing that since 5.0.

But UTF-8 to UTF-16 requires a conversion. u"" wouldn't and in some cases, we 
would be able to use it without memory allocations either -- that is, 
QStringLiteral().

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