On 16 Sep 2011, at 12:38, Marco van de Voort wrote:
What do you think about adding TStringsUTF8/TStringListUTF8 to
classes.pas?
I think this is a slippery slope. These kinds of hacks are slipped
in one by
one, and each one is only a small concession, but in the end it is a
disaster. I don't want to create and maintain UTF8 versions of
nearly every
class, even when the class doesn't actually do anything UTF8 specific.
If we support an UTF-8 version of the RTL, then either the code must
work both for UTF-16 and UTF-8, or it has to be separately maintained
anyway. And if the code works for both types, generics should enable
having both without source code duplication.
Note that I'm not specifically arguing here for adding them or not,
but I don't think the maintenance will be much higher than what will
be imposed already by requiring that the RTL be compilable for both
UTF-8 and UTF-16.
Jonas
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