On Monday, 18 November 2019 17:05:29 CET Lars Knoll wrote: > > On 18 Nov 2019, at 17:00, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: > > > > Thiago Macieira wrote: > > > >> The codecs we want to remove are just big tables of mapping old, legacy > >> codecs to UTF-16. We can easily remove those. > >> > >> After that, removal of QTextCodec itself is not a big gain. > > > > > > So let me ask once again: Is ICU not already a hard requirement for Qt on > > > > *nix systems? So why can we not just rely on ICU's tables? > > > No, it’s not a hard requirement. And especially for low end embedded > systems, we also want to keep it that way.
But we should not keep the our codecs (aside from the UTF ones) because of that. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System Software Products _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
