On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because using utf-16 on linux is very unnatural, same for utf-8 on > windows. Platforms like go32 even don't have any unicode. Coding > platform independent but fast applications is really ugly having fixed > types.
Well, then you mean that it requires conversion in some platforms rather then it not being cross-platform. What I am trying to say is that the new proposed systems will be harder to use, trying to please everyone everywhere with a perceived performance gain without any indication that this gain will actually be significant in real world applications. It uses an exotic solution, never tested before. The speed difference in LCL-Qt apps and LCL-Gtk apps is negletible, althougth we do string conversions when using Qt. Because the manipulation of strings is usually not a bottleneck. And the ansi routines will not be removed, they will be kept for those really interrested in speed. I for one prefer simplicity and easy of use to speed. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
