[Interest] Why QString and not std::string?

[Michael Seydl]

When there's no Qt I definitely would use boost. It's header only ... mostly ... very portable and provides everything one could need. Asio, regex, filesystem, spirit ... But that's the Qt mailing list don't wanna make advertisement for another library here. ;)

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On 16.06.2012, at 17:22, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 16 June 2012 Jun, Michael Seydl wrote:
>> I'd say one reason is the encoding awareness of QString alone is a good reason. Fiddling around with libicu and alike is a mess. Regarding the int to string thing. Who codes C++ without boost nowadays? boost::lexical_cast ftw.
> 
> I actually don't know anyone directly who codes C++ _with_ boost.
> 
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