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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-75665

Move QTextCodec support out of QtCore

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    • 21
    • Qt6_Foundation_ Sprint 11, Qt6_Foundation_ Sprint 12
    • cd70242b87add27696cffa446cfec684afba68ab (qt/qt5compat/6.0)

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      QTextCodec provides support for - primarily - legacy text codecs that have very little relevance on modern systems, where strings are either utf-16 or utf-8.

      We can remove text codec support from QtCore, and move respective functionality into a separate module. Requiring application developers that need to consume or produce text data in other encodings to explicitly convert the data using that module, is acceptable; QTextCodec provides the necessary functions to convert to and from QString.

      Classes that use QTextCodec in the API, or internally, and that would impacted by such a change are at least (incomplete list)

      • QTextStream::setCodec
      • QSettings::setIniCodec]
      • QXmlStreamReader/Writer::setCodec
      • QTextDocument::codecForHtml
      • QTextDocumentWriter::setCodec

      In addition, several classes in Qt use QTextCodec functionality internally in the implementation, and the documentation refers to QTextCodec in a number of places (which as such is not a problem, but might require a review to ensure that we don't recommend usage of legacy functionality).

      The individual text codecs already live in plugins, no need to change anything here.

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              heimrich Karsten Heimrich
              vhilshei Volker Hilsheimer
              Maurice Kalinowski Maurice Kalinowski
              Alex Blasche Alex Blasche
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