Hans-Peter Diettrich schrieb:
I just wonder why special UTF8 functions are required at all. From the
user VP the use of UTF-8 arguments should not deserve different
procedures, overloaded procedures should be sufficient if ever required.
I don't think so. It just opens a can of worms. The user will believe that
there is no need to pay attention to encoding, the compiler will do it all for
him. But that's not true. Even if it works in some circumstances, it's not a
solution for all cases. The user should be kept aware that he is working with
different encodings. It can also happen, that different encoding types are
handled by a program. If the user can not rely on getting back a certain
encoding it will be a severe problem. It may be not so convenient to use
different function/procedure names but it keeps everything clear at least. And
it also makes clear where conversions (with possible loss of characters) are
needed/appear.
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