On Thursday 15 September 2011 10:27:28 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > And considering the amount of text processing apps I have written > (plenty of them), indexed character access is really not a top priority > or a often used feature. > Graeme, please have look into: http://www.lazarusforum.de/ and http://www.freepascal.ru/
There are plenty of user problems with utf-8 character access and string length. I assume 100% of them would be solved with utf-16. BTW, do you remember how long it took until the current FPC WideString and UnicodeString were reliable? And now there should be an even more complex string type implemented? shudder.... Martin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
