fdo#38838 - Removal/Replacement of the String/UniString with OUString once and for all.

[Caolán McNamara]

On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 13:34 +0100, Jean-Noël Rouvignac wrote:
> Thanks for all your relevant answers and wiki updates.
> I understand the goal is to replace String and its variants by
> OUString.
> 
> My last remaining question is "what is the use of OString? Where/when
> is it used in the application?"

OString is for 8bit strings, while OUString is for UTF-16 strings. So
OStrings get used as the destination string class for e.g. converting to
utf-8 or ascii.

C.