[Qt-interest] How to compress QString

[Ankit Agarwal]

Hi,
Whats the advantage that we get by converting the string to UTF - 8?

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Thiago Macieira <
thiago.macieira at trolltech.com> wrote:

> Em Quinta-feira 16 Abril 2009, às 11:08:47, Oliver.Knoll at comit.chescreveu:
> > One flavour of qCompress takes an uchar * and the number of bytes as
> > argument:
> >
> >   QByteArray qCompress (const uchar *data, int nbytes, int
> compressionLevel
> > = -1)
> >
> > You get access to the raw unicode bytes within a QString with several
> > methods:
> >
> >   http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qstring.html#data-2 (you get a QChar *)
> >   http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qstring.html#utf16 (you get a ushort *)
> >   http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qstring.html#unicode (you get a QChar *)
>
> I would instead recommend you convert the string to UTF-8 before you
> compress
> it.
>
> YMMV.
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Regards,
Ankit Agarwal
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Vegayan Systems
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