Michael Schnell schrieb:
On 09/15/2011 09:57 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
What the hell has "experience" got to do with the preference between
UTF-8 and UTF-16?
In fact users want to deal with "decently coded characters" and not with
"cryptic bytes some of which together are representing a character".
(e.g. when doing MyChar := MyString[1]; )
Here UTF-8 code in a type called "ANSISting" is a no-go.
UTF-16 code in WideChar, and WideString come quite close to this in the
Western world, but I think this is not good enough.
Have a look at the many languages in the Unicode BMP (or easier: look
for languages with characters *outside* the BMP). All these languages
are comfortable with UTF-16, when a char is an UTF-16 WideChar.
E.g. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_%28Unicode%29>
DoDi
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