Am 2013-12-25 19:50, schrieb Marco van de Voort: > In short, I don't think fighting the native encoding of an target is worth > the shallow appeal of the "one encoding rules all" principle. That is mostly > pushed by people that don't even use windows, and thus won't feel the pain.
This is not true! I am programming for Windows exlusively (currently) and still want UTF8 everywhere. UTF8 is the most useful encoding *and* Lazarus uses it *and* it is used in many other situations. And I don't want to think about encodings all the time. I want a single string type in my programs. Therefore I now need to write my own Windows interface unit because FPC does not provide Unicode file API functions. If the Windows unit of FPC migrates to unicode soon I still cannot use it because it would use the foolish UTF16 string type which I still need to convert to UTF8. What an incredible short-sighted decision. The unique opportunity to establish a single Unicode string type encoding (UTF8) within the whole programming environment Free Pascal/Lazarus has been missed. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
