On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Michael Schnell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/20/2013 12:46 AM, Juha Manninen wrote: >> >> Yes, Delphi does that. Future FPC versions will do automatic conversion, >> too, but not only to UTF-16. > > > It's a long winding debate whether or not this is a good idea from a > technical POW, but as Delphi does this, FPC seems to need to follow. > > In fact there are decent positive aspects. > > But it obviously is a negative aspect if TStringList and such functions are > implemented using a fixed encoding scheme forcing conversions to and fro > when e.g. using TStringList as an intermediate store. Here, a "generic" > implementation (which Delphi does not provide) would be good. IMHO this is > doable without loosing Delphi compatibility or performance.
+1 That's I was talking about in previous mail, "using TStringList as an intermediate store". Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
