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		adamnemecek on Oct 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wireshark is switching to Qt While I agree with your overall point, I think that in Qt most of the objects have a reason to exist. E.g. QString, unlike std::string has Unicode support.

bcoates on Oct 17, 2013 [–]

Normally you'd either just use UTF-8 in a std::string or use std::wstring

mpyne on Oct 17, 2013 | [–]

std::string with UTF-8 is not a replacement for QString though. std::wstring is actually closer but then you're still going to have to do tons of conversions, and you still don't reach the feature scope of QString.

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