Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: | > | >>>>>> "Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > Abdelrazak> I really think we should get rid of iconv. | > | > We are going to need iconv anyway to convert characters to iso-8859-x | > | > and friends for latex output. | > | | By the way, if we are going to encapsulate Qt unicode table we | > could | > | as well encapsulate QString conversion facilities including all 8bit | > | locales: | > Using Qt for something does not imply using it for everything. | > And if we can easily stay away and use more widespread/portable | > libs/code then we should do that. | | I am not sure iconv is any more portable than Qt. But even if so, Qt | API is way more simpler than iconv API and I care about simplicity.
Who has said that we must stay with iconv? (for external->internal, and internal->frontend usage) And the "complicated" iconv api is easily wrapped up anyway... -- Lgb