On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:03:48PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:03:09PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > 'switching to unicode' means reading in, writing out > > > > Rather some 8 bit encoding of it like UTF8(?).. > > Talking to Lars yes I think we want UTF8 as the file-format encoding. > > Storage at runtime is more controversial. Lars wants to use the > platform's wstring etc. I think this will cause us a lot of problems - > support varies wildly between different systems, and somebody is going > to have to write the wstring <-> QString stuff.
But QString in the core is not an option. > I placed everything behind a to/fromqstr buffer zone precisely so this > can be done if still needed. What about xforms? We'd need something like this there as well.. > > Not sure. What does a QString look like? Is that a wstring? > > It's a UTF-16 data buffer. *sigh* 16 bit address room for 32 bit entities... The world isn't changing after all. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
