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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: getting char data out of QStrings in Qt 2.0
From:       Warwick Allison <warwick () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-04-30 18:14:31
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, pbrown@redhat.com wrote:
>Is the preferred method for getting data out of QStrings and into char
>arrays in Qt 2.0 via the ::ascii() method or with a (const char *) cast?
>And why?

The preferred method is simply NOT TO DO IT.  When converting to "ascii" you
need to consider WHY.  For example, if you want to write a "text file", should
that be in UTF-8, UTF-16, or the user's locale-specific 8-bit encoding?

Whenever you call QString::ascii() you poke a stick in the eye of a non-Latin1
user.

When you call:

	foo(bar.ascii())

you're probably better off fixing foo() to take const QString&.

--
Warwick

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