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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: getting char data out of QStrings in Qt 2.0
From:       Alex Zepeda <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date:       1999-04-30 22:54:48
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Warwick Allison wrote:

> 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&.

Well how else are we going to get at a bytearray useable for such things
as write(2).  Some of us don't like using QFile or QTextStreams quite yet.

- alex

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