Am 14.08.2017 16:21 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus" < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org>: > > On 2017-08-14 15:11, Tony Whyman via Lazarus wrote: >> >> ambiguous a term - especially as the Delphi/FPC UnicodeString type >> exists and probably (but I'm not certain) means UTF-16. > > > Yes, that is f**ken annoying. FPC should have named it what it really is - UTF16String! But instead they followed Delphi like a lemming and named it UnicodeString.
Because the crowd demanding Delphi compatibility is larger than the crowd demanding exact terminology. > In reality, UNICODE means text with an encoding of any of UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, or UTF-32. > > In terms of Delphi and FPC, they decided Unicode = UTF-16. I'm not even sure if they mean LE or BE. If I remember correctly it depends on the endianess of the platform... Though I could be wrong. Regards, Sven
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