[Qt-interest] utf-16 and Linux?

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Quinta-feira 15 Abril 2010, às 17:00:43, Kārlis Repsons escreveu:
> If a text is copied from a Qt app., which is storing it internally as
> utf-16, what determines, how will it be stored into clipboard?

The clipboard protocol determines what the encoding and format is.

The app provides a list of possible formats and other ones ask for one of 
them.

> I even get
> very confused thinking about the fact, that KDE is based on Qt -- so it's
> actually a utf-16 system then? (I was living with an idea about utf-8...)

Yes, KDE is mostly UTF-16 due to Qt.

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