Zitat von Michael Schnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > For me, these attempts to make compiler do everything automatically sound > > like getting yet another typing saver. > Maybe I am just being lazy, but it's not a typing saver but regarding > the previous not-Unicode aware versions it's more a "preventer of a > typing enhancer" :) . > > OTOH it's not just the typing but to work with commonly used things that > "just work" in other programming systems (including previous versions of > FPC/Lazarus) - like doing a "case" of a character type -
... and some things that "just don't work" like i18n. > the user > programmer needs to learn about the internal encoding of Unicode text. I > think this should be avoided. Tell the unicode consortium. My guess: they know already. > Pascal has been a great language for > programming newcomers up till now. Simple things - like characters and > strings - should just work (unless you explicitly need extended handling). > > I don't suggest that there is a simple solution for this (other than not > doing Unicode at all) but it's worth discussing. IMHO it has been already discussed too often. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
