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Re:Fashionable Problems by ahartmetz on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:23PM (#21865744)
I don't understand your problem with QString, but anyway, AFAIK the common way to get Unicode support with std::string is ICU. ICU is quite large (~15-20 MB binary) and it breaks binary compatibility with every release.
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Re:Fashionable Problems by hadiz on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:15AM (#21872975)
I don't do C++ anymore professionally, but from I remember, std::locale was very useful: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/locale

And QString had no magic to it other than wrapping its underlying data in ytf-16 which std::u16string does too.

It's not perfect but it gets the job done, IIRC.

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