In our previous episode, Martin Schreiber said: > > > Hmm, you should ask the Russian users for example if they prefer MSEgui > utf-16 > internal encoding or Lazarus utf-8.
Users always look short term, and want to change as little as possible. This goes both for UTF-16 (with the "is UCS2" approximation and keep the old ways of string indexing) as for UTF-8 (as superset of ansi, avoidance of multiple file types (no endianess)). Note that e.g. source ocde seems to go en masse in the direction of UTF-8 (Even Tiburon, which works exclusively on Windows, an UTF-16 platform, saves source default to UTF8 afaik). Anyway, I think a mix of UTF-8 and UTF-16 is here to stay, so better deal with it. UTF-8 won't go away as legacy anytime soon. It's the developers responsibility to keep an eye out for the long term direction of a toolchain. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
