The compressed string table (CSTRINGS) consists of a number of consecutive ascii strings, each terminated the ascii character \0 (zero) and of variable size.

The location (relative to the file) and size of the table are specified by the HEADER.STRINGSOFF and HEADER.STRINGSSIZE fields, respectively: the compression state, which is optional, is instead specified by the HEADER.CSTRINGSCTYPE field.

Annotations:

•in case of HEADER.CSTRINGSCTYPE compression = 1, use the standard library functions (QT >= 3.3.4) qUncompress() to decompress the table properly.

•offsets referring to this table are always understood to refer to the uncompressed table.