On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Tony Whyman via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > > 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?
I have no fixation in any Unicode flavors... My "problem" is because I use Windows, not Linux where UTF8 is the default. > 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? I didn't propose that. But take a look in other languages, see what they are using. Best regards, Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
