> From: Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Development] QString::fromAscii & toAscii's future > On terça-feira, 24 de abril de 2012 07.33.41, BRM wrote: >> Question: is there are reason not to support the US-Extended ASCII >> (128-255)? I know it's not used often, but sometimes those characters > are >> very useful. > > There's no such encoding. > > "The use of the term is sometimes criticized, because it can be mistakenly > interpreted that the ASCII standard has been updated to include more than 128 > characters or that the term unambiguously identifies a single encoding, both > of > which are untrue" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ascii
Thanks. > You have to tell me what you want me to do with those bytes. They can be: > > 1) rejected and replaced with U+FFFD (replacement character) > 2) copied with the high bit discarded > 3) copied as-is, which means doing exactly the same as fromLatin1 > 4) something else >From what you noted above, I'd just say the toLatin1()/fromLatin1() would be >sufficient, e.g. #3. That should produce what most expect. Ben _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
