On 06/01/2023 20:36, Adriaan van Os via fpc-devel wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote:
- String = UnicodeString, Char=WideChar
UnicodeString ? ? I don't know what that is supposed to be. We have
UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 and UTF-8 Some marketing people, not understanding
anything about computers, talk about "Unicode" to mean
"UTF-16-treated-as-UCS-2".
For me, UTF-16 is the dumbest thing ever invented in computing. So I
shiver at the thought of a "Unicode" RTL.
We really should use UTF-8, as most open source projects do.
There will be two RTLs: the current one (which supports any single-byte
code page, including utf-8), and a unicode/utf-16 one for compatibility
with recent Delphi versions.
Jonas
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