On Wednesday 11 February 2015 01:52:34 Konstantin Ritt wrote: > 2015-02-11 1:26 GMT+04:00 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com>: > > On Wednesday 11 February 2015 00:37:41 Konstantin Ritt wrote: > > > Yes, that would be an ideal solution. Unfortunately, that would also > > > > break > > > > > a LOT of existing code. > > > In Qt4 times, I was doing some experiments with the QString adaptive > > > storage (similar to what NSString does behind the scenes). > > > > I've thought of this too. > > > > This stumbles on QString's implicit sharing. If you do this: > > QString foo = "some UTF-8 text"; > > QString copy = foo; > > qDebug() << foo.constData()[0]; > > In my experiments (a QString with an adaptive storage), data()/constData() > returns uchar*;
No, it doesn't. It returns QChar because it has returned QChar since Qt 2. You cannot change this. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development