On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:46 AM, <michael.vancann...@wisa.be> wrote: >> Can you clarify a bit. When you say "unicode string" to you mean UTF-16 >> (Delphi's definition of a unicode string), or do you mean a Unicode >> string in the true sense - it can be utf-8 or utf-16 etc depending on >> the platform's native encoding. > > This has not yet been decided.
IMHO a platform-dependent string would be the worse solution of all ... far worse then migrating to UTF-16. It adds tiny bit of speed while it puts a large development complexity burdain ... I imagine how one would explain that kind of thing to newbies ... Just recently I had a student from my university implement a routine which converts HTML text from utf-8 to braille in utf-8 ... I didn't have to explain anything and she could implement it without Pascal previous experience. I wonder if I had to say: ops, the main string type is unknown =D To do any operation on it you need to first convert to something known and then convert back to unknown, while unknown conversions might take place ... -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
