On Friday 26 September 2008 09.34:44 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > Well if you have Utf-8 versions of all basic string processing > functions like Pos, Length, Copy, Insert etc you don't have to think > of encoding or anything. fpGUI uses UTF-8 internally, and I never have > to think about what encoding I'm working with. I assume Lazarus LCL is > the same. > It seems you prefer utf-8 over utf-16 for internal string encoding in a GUI framework. Why? I prefer utf-16 over utf-8 for MSEide+MSEgui because *all* current users (including the Chinese) can use simple string index to access the characters of their used languages and almost nobody can use string index to access characters in utf-8.
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