On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I guess that would be one of the best solutions. Having a system unicode >> string type and then some specialized string types. >> >> SysString >> UTF8String >> UTF16String >> UTF32String >> Anyway, I still think something like this would be nice ;) > > This originally was the plan. The implementation differed however between > different solutions due to problems with automated conversions.
Taking a step back from Free Pascal and Tiburon.... How do other frameworks handle string encodings etc... Frameworks like Java, Qt etc... Can't we learn something from them as well? Both Java and Qt run on multiple platforms, read/write to files, do string manipulation etc.... I don't know those frameworks well, but they have huge developer base and backed by huge companies (with plenty of developers working on those frameworks). Plus, they have been supporting Unicode for ages already! I'm sure we can learn something from their experience. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
