[Interest] Why there is no QChar::toLocal8Bit()?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

09.04.2016, 19:45, "Prav" <pr12og2 at programist.ru>:
> Hi, Thiago Macieira.
>
>>  It's intentional because it's superfluous. You can get the same by running
>
>>          QString(the_qchar).toLocal8Bit();
>
>>  converting to a multibyte 8-bit representation is a string operation anyway.
>
> Multibyte?! I thought it should be like
>
> char QChar::toLocal8Bit() const;
>
> No?

For example, popular choice for Local8Bit encoding is UTF-8, which is multibyte.

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Regards,
Konstantin