From kde-devel  Tue Jun 29 22:13:55 1999
From: Hans Meine <hansmeine () dial-net ! de>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:13:55 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: QString or QCString for file names?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93083296108043

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Pietro Iglio wrote:
>It is my understanding that any string that can be displayed must be 
>of type
>QString. My question is: can I use QCString for file names and paths?
>
>AFAIK Linux and other UNIX file systems do not use unicode chars for 
>file names.

AFAIK that's true, I just wanted to mention VFAT (from MS "OS"es) and VFAT32 do.
But for example the Linux vfat-FS does strip the upper 8 bit...
I wonder how 16bit-charsets could be possible in UNIX in the future.

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