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authorKai Koehne <kai.koehne@digia.com>2014-05-06 12:22:06 +0200
committerThe Qt Project <gerrit-noreply@qt-project.org>2014-05-13 16:08:01 +0200
commit8c0b28a5a80e278eb20e6875d212113db94142ae (patch)
tree5046606f02f057db0ba10bcb06048c588a6a63d4 /src/corelib/tools/qlocale.cpp
parent6e5410e5b5e41e9360f70a66171ab819d9286cab (diff)
Document behavioral dependencies to ICU in QLocale
On Windows, Qt5Core does not link against ICU anymore. So it's worthwhile to point out that QLocale::toUpper(), QLocale::toLower() will just fall back to QString equivalents / "C"-locale conversions. Change-Id: Icadc20f3033aa39fcee93e61e082562945951c08 Reviewed-by: Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@digia.com>
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diff --git a/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.cpp b/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.cpp
index 98e38ca587..3754a1bfcf 100644
--- a/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.cpp
@@ -2404,6 +2404,13 @@ Qt::LayoutDirection QLocale::textDirection() const
\since 4.8
Returns an uppercase copy of \a str.
+
+ If Qt Core is using the ICU libraries, they will be used to perform
+ the transformation according to the rules of the current locale.
+ Otherwise the conversion may be done in a platform-dependent manner,
+ with QString::toUpper() as a generic fallback.
+
+ \sa QString::toUpper()
*/
QString QLocale::toUpper(const QString &str) const
{
@@ -2421,6 +2428,13 @@ QString QLocale::toUpper(const QString &str) const
\since 4.8
Returns a lowercase copy of \a str.
+
+ If Qt Core is using the ICU libraries, they will be used to perform
+ the transformation according to the rules of the current locale.
+ Otherwise the conversion may be done in a platform-dependent manner,
+ with QString::toLower() as a generic fallback.
+
+ \sa QString::toLower()
*/
QString QLocale::toLower(const QString &str) const
{