Unicode is a 16-bit character set, portable across all major computing platforms and with decent coverage of almost all of the world. It is also single-locale; it includes no code pages or other complexities that make software harder to write and test. Finally, there is nothing else that's reasonably cross-platform. For these reasons, Troll Tech has chosen to make Unicode the native character set of Qt starting with version 2.0.
Information about Unicode on the web. The Unicode Consortium has a number of documents available, including
The Standard. The current version of the standard is 2.1.9, 3.0 is coming soon.
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