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

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dijous, 3 de novembre de 2011, Josh Richardson vàreu escriure:
> 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.

The general answer is, for poppler core code, use GooString since it probably 
has what you want and it gives consistency, for pdftohtml-only code feel free 
to use whatever you want.

Albert

> 
> --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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