Yup. 7-bit, but the point is even if character above 127 were used it would've been okay. 7-bit (8-bit) ASCII has a long life to live :) It's just machine opti

Yup. 7-bit, but the point is even if character above 127 were used it would've been okay. 7-bit (8-bit) ASCII has a long life to live :) It's just machine optimal, and the same time not flexible for modern days needs... just like "C", and I love it. I'm using Qt5 these days, and there is QString and QByteArray (and also QLatin1String) - and I need to keep in memory lots of properties for our editor, going to QString (wide-chars) just uses more memory for no reason. Sticking to QByteArray/QLatin1String makes more sense for them.