The standard was finalized in 1998 but the implementations on a wide variety of necessary platforms didn't happen until later. Qt's QString predated 1998. Als

The standard was finalized in 1998 but the implementations on a wide variety of necessary platforms didn't happen until later. Qt's QString predated 1998. Also, this SO q&a has more tidbits: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1618798/why-is-there-a-different-string-class-in-every-c-platform-out-there http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1618798/why-is-there-a-di...