On Fri, 6 Jan 2023, 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.
Seems my warning to prevent heart attacks was on its place but maybe not
entirely effective :-)
Relax, no-one will force you to use UTF16.
But there are people that do not have the luxury of choice, and we should
be kind to them too.
Michael.
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