Putting unicode in QString literals

[miwarre]

This is the one case I yearn for Java (where you can put \u escape codes in a string) although I realize Qt is not to blame for C++ shortcomings in this area.

Well, it is not a C++ shortcoming. C++ allows the following declaration:

const wchar_t somestring = L"The Euro symbol is: \x20ac.";

const wchar_t somestring = L"The Euro symbol is: \x20ac.";

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A bit cumbersome is that, to have a Qt QString from it, you have to use the QString::fromWCharArray() function:

[...]->setText(QString::fromWCharArray(somestring) );

[...]->setText(QString::fromWCharArray(somestring) );

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which of course cannot be put in the declaration:

const QString somestring = QString::fromWCharArray(L"The Euro symbol is: \x20ac.");	// not legal!

const QString somestring = QString::fromWCharArray(L"The Euro symbol is: \x20ac.");	// not legal!

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A QString constructor accepting a wchar_t[] as parameter could be useful...

M.

P.S.: if the characters following the \x escape sequence could be interpreted as hex digits, the wchar_t string must be split:

const wchar_t somestring = L"The Euro symbol is: \x20ac" "ABCD";

const wchar_t somestring = L"The Euro symbol is: \x20ac" "ABCD";

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