[docs] QAnyStringView: remove the prediction that Qt 7 will drop L1
UTF-8 can never replace Latin-1 as the go-to US-ASCII superset, because, as a variable-length encoding, it cannot use the important size check in equality comparisons with UTF-16 to avoid having to iterate the whole string data. Mention that. UTF-8 only makes sense in a UTF-8-only environment where the size check works again. As long as our preferred charset is UTF-16, Latin-1 must be the preferred US-ASCII wrapper. Pick-to: 6.4 6.3 6.2 Change-Id: Ibe52cfc0c9fce0e7aaacd4cd8d6361e8d8bdee3d Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
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Unlike QStringView and QUtf8StringView, QAnyStringView can hold
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strings of any of the following encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16, and
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Latin-1. The latter is supported to keep old source working
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efficiently. It is expected that by Qt 7, the Latin-1 support will
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be removed.
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Latin-1. The latter is supported because Latin-1, unlike UTF-8,
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can be efficiently compared to UTF-16 data: a length mismatch
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already means the strings cannot be equal. This is not true for
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UTF-8/UTF-16 comparisons, because UTF-8 is a variable-length
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encoding.
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The string may be represented as an array (or an array-compatible
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data-structure such as QString, std::basic_string, etc.) of \c
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