On 14/08/17 14:11, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote:
FPC and Lazarus claim they are cross-platform — this is a fact — and
because that, IMHO, both should be use in only one way in every
system, don't you think?
Best regards,
Marcos Douglas
Precisely. But why this fixation on UTF-16/Unicode and not UTF8?
Lazarus is already a UTF8 environment.
Much of the LCL assumes UTF8.
UTF8 is arguably a much more efficient way to store and transfer data
UTF-16/Unicode can only store 65,536 characters while the Unicode
standard (that covers UTF8 as well) defines 136,755 characters.
UTF-16/Unicode's main advantage seems to be for rapid indexing of large
strings.
You made need UTF-16/Unicode support for accessing Microsoft APIs but
apart from that, why is it being promoted as the universal standard?
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