[Qt-interest] Problem using URL with special characters

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 29 de August de 2011 07.22.41, Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> Thiago:
> 
>   If:
> 
>     1. It's "the same mistake that everyone does" and
> 
>     2. "QUrl's ... constructor is unusable"
> 
>   It's not really "everyone's mistake"; it's a bug in Qt.
> 
>   Now if the design of QUrl can't be fixed so its constructor
>   must remain unusable, maybe Qt needs to replace the construc-
>   tor with the printing of an error message and an ASSERT(false)
>   or some other construct that will prevent "everyone" from
>   blundering into this design problem?

I can't add the assertion because there is valid code using the constructor 
and has been tested. The fact that the design is flawed doesn't mean people 
can't work around the problems.

It was incorrect to say it's unusable. It is usable, under a very limited set 
of circumstances.

The proper fix is to rewrite QUrl in Qt 5, which I'm doing.

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