Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:24:59 +0200 From: Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@getdesigned.at>

On 25.08.2011 11:11, Tan, Tom (Shanghai) wrote:

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- The name TR is inspired from QT' tr() macro.

Qt's tr() stands for "translate" because that thing is the entry point for Qt's localization/message catalog system. In other words, you use tr() only for user-visible string that should get translated. That makes it a poor inspiration for something that is concerned with encoding conversion.

Sebastian

I am aware this is not translation, but I like the shortness of tr(). One of the things I am expecting from the community is a proper naming. Vicente Botet renamed it to be adaptive_string, but it seems too long for me to type. Wile I am typing, it occurs to me as() might be a better name.