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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Unicode, local8bit, ascii, utf8
From:       Hans Petter Bieker <bieker () stud ! ntnu ! no>
Date:       2000-04-01 21:19:27
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Werner Trobin wrote:

> handling, but AFAIK there are no general rules available
> when to use utf8, latin1, local8bit, ascii,...

latin1 and ascii()? Never.. maybe for debug output or something like that.

> Is there any guideline which clarifies those things?
> Like: Screen: i18n(Unicode)

i18n() takes a UTF-8 string as an argument and returns a QString.

>       XML: utf8

Don't know about that.

>       filenames: ?

* QFile::encodeName() and QFile::decodeName() for filenames
  (it uses local8Bit() for the moment, but that can change in the future.)

* local8Bit() when printing to screen.

-bieker-

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Engineering Cybernetics
                 bieker@stud.ntnu.no / bieker@kde.org

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