[Kde-pim] Akonadi and PostgreSQL

[Will Stephenson]

On Friday 12 March 2010 11:48:31 Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Yep, the implicit conversion from char * to QString is disabled on purpose.
> In KDE, it is mostly used so that we don't forget the i18n() call, which
> marks a string for translations.
> In other places, it used to prevent confusion between QByteArray and
> QString, the distinction is often important. This is especially the case
> in the Akonadi server, which deals with raw byte arrays, for example the
> commands it receives from the client, but also deals with proper strings
> in some places. Using QLatin1String or QString::fromLatin1() makes you
> think twice if you're really doing the correct thing.

Don't forget the encoding detection performance benefits described in:
http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/04/28/string-theory/

Will
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