[poppler] GooString ‹ Why do we use it instead of std::string?

[Josh Richardson]

I noticed that there is some use of std::string in the codebase.  I think
GooString is historical, but it does provide some number conversion
facilities that are a little less straightforward with std::string.  For
the most part GooString has met my needs for pdftohtml, and where it
hasn't, I've extended it, because for consistency it seems like a good
choice -- don't know if that's right or wrong.  It's a good question.

--josh

On 11/3/11 10:43 PM, "Alec Taylor" <alec.taylor6 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Good evening,
>
>Why should I use GooString instead of std::string?
>
>I've been very careful so far with my patches to only using GooString.
>But I was wondering if there is a specific added feature set (i.e.
>UTF16) which can only be achieved with your custom GooString library.
>
>Thanks for all information,
>
>Alec Taylor
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