Applications with a graphical user interface (and games surely fall into this category) are able to interact with users by displaying text and by expecting textual input from the user. We have already scratched the surface of this topic in the previous chapters using the QString class. Now, we will go into further detail.
Text handling
String encodings
The C++ language does not specify encoding of strings. Thus, any char* array and any std::string object can use an arbitrary encoding. When using these types for interaction with native APIs and third-party libraries, you have to refer to their documentation to find out which encoding they use. The encoding used by native APIs of the operating system usually depends on the current...
