Jürgen Hestermann schrieb:
The ANSI interface should not be used anymore. It is obsolete and only needed for ancient OS's like DOS. But programmers should not be encourraged to use it on modern platforms. Just use UTF8 *everywhere*. That should be the aim IMO.
Whenever the encoding matters, most users and applications are best off with their regional Ansi encoding - all used characters are single bytes. UTF-16 extends the range of languages whose characters can be assumed to have a fixed size, i.e. all character sets in the BMP. Such fixed-size characters IMO are on the top of the wishlist of most users, so that none of them ever will be happy with UTF-8. Certainly UTF-8 was the best choice when Delphi (and FPC) did not have native UTF-16 strings, but when we have Unicode strings, now or soon, it should be dropped.
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