[Qt-interest] Convert a QString to string

[NARCISO, Rui]

wouldn't :

   str(your_QString)

solve the problem ??

Rui

-----Message d'origine-----
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[mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com]De la part de Thiago Macieira
Envoyé : mardi 10 février 2009 16:00
À : qt-interest at trolltech.com
Objet : Re: [Qt-interest] Convert a QString to string


Em Terça-feira 10 Fevereiro 2009, às 15:05:18, Jan Ekholm escreveu:
> On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Sujan Dasmahapatra wrote:
> > How can I convert a    QString  str1 to string str2.
>
> Assuming you mean std::string it's pretty obvious if you actually look into
> the docs a bit...
>
> 	std::string QString::toStdString () const

Please be careful with that function.

std::string is not a string (in the Qt sense), but a byte array. It's closer 
to QByteArray than to QString. That means that, when you convert from QString 
to std::string, you're introducing an encoding conversion and you should, 
therefore, be very careful.

Unlike the conversions to QByteArray, QString offers no choice of encoding for 
the conversion to std::string. Your only option is the toAscii() conversion, 
which is Latin 1 by default but can be changed with 
QTextCodec::setCodecForCStrings. This is important, because it's not the 
locale conversion: you may be losing data by converting to std::string.

My recommendation is that you instead modify the rest of your code to use 
QString, as far as you can. 

If you can't, then try to use std::wstring instead: all platforms where Qt is 
supported use UTF-16 or UCS-4 for wchar_t, so there's the conversion is 
trivial and there's no loss of data.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) nokia.com
  Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Software
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