[Development] QtCS 2024 session on deprecations: what did we actually agree on?

Philippe philwave at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 22:45:58 CET 2025


> About Qt5Compat: there's still no replacement for QTextCodec, and I 
> don't understand why it was ever moved out of QtCore. As a consequence, 
> the first few Qt 6 releases weren't able to parse XML files with 
> shift-jis encoding, a Qt 5 regression, still unfixed, except for libicu 
> builds.

Glad that you quote this, because I also wondered why this was removed.
In my case, shift-jis is required for Japanese CD-Text (today, CDs with
Japanese CD-Text are still produced).

Philippe



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