[Qt-interest] Converting first character of a char* from local charset

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 27 de May de 2011 19:17:16 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 05/27/2011 07:06 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Friday, 27 de May de 2011 17:21:15 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> I can imagine that the performance of this code ain't the best, since
> >> what it does is call QTextCodec::toUnicode() repeatedly, increasing
> >> the
> >> amount of characters each time, until it hits an amount of bytes that
> >> can be converted.
> >> 
> >> Is there a better way to achieve this?
> > 
> > Why do you want to achieve this first?
> 
> I'm porting a piece of software from Windows to Unix, and the interfaces
> (abstract classes) I need to implement work like that.  The pure virtual
> I need to implement gets a char* and needs to return the first character
> of it converted to Unicode, from whatever character set the user's
> system is using.

That didn't answer the question...

Doing it because some requirement with no reason asks for it is not enough. 
Blindly accepting bad requirements is bad practice and leads to bad code.

Try converting the first 32 bytes to QString and then get the first one out of 
the string.

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