On Wednesday 18 December 2013 02:52:49 Marcos Douglas wrote: > > I would like to understand: Why Java, .Net and others use UTF-16 as > default encode and why Lazarus team chose UTF-8? > One reason is that Free Pascal did not support utf-16 at the time Unicode became urgent and later the FPC implementation of utf-16 strings was buggy. So there was no other choice than to use utf-8 in standard FPC 8 bit strings.
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