Since _ls is now deprecated this is removed in favour of L1, I've also taken the oportunity to replace QStringLiteral and QLatin1String with their shortened form while we're at it.
There are also a few instances where the string literal type has been switch, the general rule being to use the one that matches the function type or value being compared to avoid conversions.
For now everything should look identical. However this moves to using a model for the content of the message and is intended to lay the foundation for improved message content representation, e.g. splitting up a text message in multiple sections and using different delegates for things like code and quotes.