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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: KMail and QT 3
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2001-09-01 17:05:26
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On Saturday 01 September 2001 08:50, Michael Häckel wrote: 
> On Saturday 01 September 2001 00:55, Marc Mutz wrote: 
> > - Use UTF-8 or UTF-16 next time around ;-) 
> 
> We did use utf-8 in KMail 1.2, but the conversion between a QString 
> an utf-8 prooved to be way to slow. About two third of the index file 
> reading time was spent in this conversion. 
> 
> utf-16 is probably also not that much better, in the case, it has to 
> change the byte order. 
<snip> 
 
Byte swapping isn't that expensive. And Qt will write in the native byteorder, with \
the added benefit of detecting when it's the other. So you can use KMail on two \
different arch's.   
Marc 
 
BTW: I'm also running on Qt3 - uuugly (since nothing works currently - except KMail \
:-)   
- --  
"The problem with today's Internet is that it's dumb, boring and 
isolated," says Colony [CEO and chairman of Forrester Research]. 
Perhaps he and many like him are missing the real point: is it really 
the Internet, or is it users like himself that are dumb, boring and 
isolated?  -- John Horvath: "Internet X", Telepolis 2001/08/14 (#9309) 
 
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