[Qt-interest] QImageReader::supportedImageFormats returns QList<QByteArray>

[Constantin Makshin]

May be because extensions can't contain non-Latin characters and so  
there's no need in wasting memory by storing them in Unicode.

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:31:20 +0300, variadic.template  
<variadic.template at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what's the reason for returning a list of QByteArrays
> in QImageReader::supportedImageFormats? In every case,
> it will return the names of supported extensions, which
> will be strings. And there is no method for creating a
> QStringList from a QList<QByteArray>. So, for getting a
> QStringList of the supported extensions, i have to create
> it by-hand. Yeah, no big thing, but seems not very
> Qt-like.
> Or am i blind and don't see the obviously reason for
> QByteArrays?
>
> Regards
>
> (Anyway, Qt is great and gets even greater)

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Constantin Makshin