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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: getting char data out of QStrings in Qt 2.0
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-04-30 23:35:26
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On Sat, 01 May 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
>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.

If you are thinking about an applications own "proprietary" write and read
format, then QString::utf8() and QString::fromUtf8(...) is what you want.

This way your program will work for non-latin1 users as well (what wouldn't be
the case if you convert unicode to ascii )

Matthias


>
>- alex

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