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

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Divendres, 4 de novembre de 2011, Alec Taylor vàreu escriure:
> 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.

GooString comes from xpdf origins. xpdf author seemed to had an aversion for 
anything STL related.

Albert

> 
> Thanks for all information,
> 
> Alec Taylor
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