On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 11/23/2014 05:28 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
I meant in the way Mattias proposed, continueing making the default
"string" type utf8 on Windows.
As with Windows, the OS requires API access with UTF-16 encoded strings this
would force lots of auto-conversions, not only in the RTL but with any GUI
Library, as well.
Same would be true for making the default "string" type utf16 (or whatever)
on Linux.
OTOH using different default "string" types on different platforms auks for
severe compatibility problems when trying to do portable programs.
Catch 22 :-( .
(I myself vote for killing the type "String" completely and allow/force the
user to do a Type definition for "String" himself that is used in his code,
e.g. in a central unit.)
How do you reconcile this with the fact that pascal should be easy, and it
should be usable for teaching ?
In my personal experience, 99% of people really do not care or even know about
encodings.
The reason is quite simple: lots of programs are written in 1 language.
Let's not get carried away, please... keep it simple.
Michael.
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