Porting away from KLocale

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:30 PM, John Layt <jlayt at kde.org> wrote:

> On 17 October 2013 01:51, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was trying to port some application to Qt/KF5, then I realized that I
> > didn't know how to port KLocale::formatByteSize. I don't see anything in
> > QLocale for this, so I feel a bit stuck. Also I don't see any
> information in
> > KDE5Porting.html
> >
> > Anybody has an idea of what's the solution?
>
> Hi,
>
> Byte size formatting is not available in Qt, nor natively on any other
> platform or ICU/CLDR.  It was the one thing in KLocale we needed to
> keep and I think Steve (?) at some stage was looking at breaking it
> out as a separate utility class.
>
> Someone recently submitted a patch to Qt for just this, but Thiago
> quickly rejected it do to several issues, mostly that there's no
> standard way of doing it across all platforms.  There's a small chance
> it could get in to 5.3, but it's not a high priority for Qt right
> now..
>
> Cheers!
>
> John.
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Hi,
Well maybe I could help with this, but I'd need to know what do you think
it would be the most appropriate solution.

Aleix
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