That obviously is the reason why Turbo - Delphi uses UCS-2 (16 bit)
instead of OF UTF-8 or UTF-16 for WideStrings (and WideChar is a 16
bit (UCS-2) value).
You didn't read http://www.jacobthurman.com/?p=30 , did you?
They are talking about Delphi 2009, of which I don't have any
information at all (and don't intend to bother with until there is a
free "Turbo" version of if).
I just talked about the current free "Turbo Delphi" version which
obviously uses UCS-2 (plain 16 bits) and not any UTF (variable size)
coding.
As discussed in the messages here, any UTF coding would result in a huge
overhead e.g. when doing something like s[4] := c; (s: WideString; c:
WideChar) as the (potentially huge) tail of the string would need to be
moved around according to the different sizes of the codes of the
previous s[4] and c.
-Michael
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