In our previous episode, thaddy said: > Marco van de Voort wrote: > > While I think it would be best to use native encoding on all platforms as > > much as possible, that is an opinion. However not using native encoding for > > general processing is nuts. So we need the UTF8 type anyway. > > > Just to make a small point: the choice for UTF16 was made because of > market reasons, not technical ones. Chinese Korean, Japanese markets are > important for Delphi. Try to figure out how to fit that in UTF8. Just a > thought.
I don't think that is the reason. Codegear/Borland simply followed Microsoft. Period. It might be a reason for Microsoft though, but that was made way way long ago, pre 1994-5. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
