Leif Ekblad schrieb:
IMO, I wouldn't support wide-character (UnicodeString) strings for
anything new.
In the beginning the wide-character string had the advantage of being
able to represent
all characters with 2 bytes, but this is no longer the case. I would
switch to UTF-8
instead and keep characters 1 byte long. A switch to UTF-8 only affects a
small amount of the code-base, and doesn't break string references.
That's how Unicode currently is handled, e.g. in Lazarus, and the mix of
codepages, e.g. for filenames, is a source of eternal trouble :-(
I'd be happy with AnsiStrings with an Encoding, but a good
implementation would require UnicodeStrings for the codepage conversion.
DoDi
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