On 06/15/2012 02:55 PM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > 15.06.2012, 14:50, "Rui Maciel" <rui.mac...@gmail.com>: >> Does anyone know what's the rationale for relying on Qt's custom QString >> instead of simply using C++'s standard and omnipresent std::string? > 1. Historical reasons - STL was not implemented on the same level in all > compilers > in the past. > 2. std::string does not hadle UTF16 strings, and std::wstring is non-standard 3. std::string's behavior (e.g. use of the copy-on-write technique) is implementation-dependent while QString is the same everywhere. 4. QString has more features (formatting, regular expressions, cheap substring extraction through QStringRef, etc.).
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