On Tuesday 25 October 2011 22:53:02 Frans Klaver wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:19:29 +0200, Antonis Tsiapaliokas > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also, please read the comment from the John Brooks, which i think > > that he isright. So what do you think? > > I would say he is right. He strongly hints at the possibility that > bool is too context dependent. And I agree with that. > > This thing is tricky to tackle. QString was created to easily > handle localization. Chances are you are going to not only > interpret true/false, but also ja/(nee|nein|nej), oui/non, si/no > and whatever may mean true or yes (or OK?) in whatever language. > What if a language introduces a new word to mean true? You just > don't have to handle natural language issues with doubles, floats > and integers, which is why that can be done by QString hands down.
As far as I remember, POSIX locales offer strings or regexps for YES and NO, so it might be possible to add something to QLocale to access those strings. -- Christoph Feck http://kdepepo.wordpress.com/ KDE Quality Team _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
