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/*!
    \group string-processing
    \title Classes for String Data

    \brief Classes for working with string data.

    These classes are relevant when working with string data. See the
    \l{Unicode in Qt}{information about support for Unicode in Qt} for
    more information.
*/


/*! 
    \page unicode.html
    \title Unicode in Qt
    \brief Information about support for Unicode in Qt.

    \keyword Unicode

    \ingroup technology-apis

    Unicode is a multi-byte character set, portable across all major
    computing platforms and with decent coverage over most of the world.
    It is also single-locale; it includes no code pages or other
    complexities that make software harder to write and test. There is no
    competing character set that's reasonably cross-platform. For these
    reasons, Unicode 4.0 is used as the native character set for Qt.
    
    \section1 Qt's Classes for Working with Strings

    These classes are relevant when working with string data. For information
    about rendering text, see the \l{Rich Text Processing} overview, and if
    your string data is in XML, see the \l{XML Processing} overview.

        \annotatedlist string-processing

    \section1 Information about Unicode on the Web

    The \l{http://www.unicode.org/}{Unicode Consortium} has a number
    of documents available, including

    \list

    \i \l{http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/principles.html}{A
    technical introduction to Unicode}
    \i \l{http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/standard.html}{The
    home page for the standard}

    \endlist


    \section1 The Standard

    The current version of the standard is \l{http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/}{Unicode 5.1.0}.

    Previous printed versions of the specification:

    \list
    \o \l{http://www.amazon.com/Unicode-Standard-Version-5-0-5th/dp/0321480910/trolltech/t}{The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0}
    \o \l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321185781/trolltech/t}{The Unicode Standard, version 4.0}  
    \o \l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201616335/trolltech/t}{The Unicode Standard, version 3.2}
    \o \l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201473459/trolltech/t}{The Unicode Standard, version 2.0} \mdash
    see also the \l{http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr8.html}{2.1 update} and
    \l{http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Unicode 2.1.9}{the 2.1.9 data files} at
    \l{http://www.unicode.org}.
    \endlist