On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> I've continued to work on support of an unicodestring type in fpc. It's > currently in an svn branch at: > http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/unicodestring > and will be merged later to trunk. The unicodestring type is a ref. counted > utf-16 string. On non-windows, widestring is mapped to this type. If you're > interested in unicode support please test, give feedback here and submit > fixes. > > An existing working copy of trunk can be switched to this branch by > cd fpc > svn switch http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/unicodestring > and back with > svn switch http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk What happened to the idea of dynamical encoding ? And why utf-16 ? Unix uses UTF-8 by default, which means that a conversion must be done each time you interface to the OS ? Can you explain some of the decisions ? Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
