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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Q: The dimension of UNICODE awareness
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date:       1999-10-15 13:29:43
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On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> 
> > > URL's are very bad in handling unicode stuff.. Basically URLs are 8-bit
> > > based.
> > 
> > ahem I though US ASCII was 7-bit based system and that it was just encoded as an
> > eight bit sequence.  The high order bit is insignificant ( always 0 ).
> 
> Yes. The point is it has support for 8 bits, not for 16 bits. So it is
> easy to expand from US ASCII to UTF8 but including Unicode directly is
> not possible.

Right.  But since KURL currently uses QString internally doesn't it have to
make a conversion when it stores the string.  In other words, if I have
QString url ( "http://www.kde.org" ).  The url is stored as two byte sequences
internally right ?

Regards,
Dawit A.

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