On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 01:08:10 -0300
"Flávio Etrusco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lengthy email warning! :-$
>
> > AFAIK synedit uses UCS16, not UTF16.
>
> Hmm, very probably. I was not aware of the difference until now, when
> You and Google enlightened me ;-)
> There was some talk about supporting UTF16, but I never used
> "UniSynEdit" so I don't know how it ended up.
>
> > But anyway, it's merely a matter of
> > taste. I prefer UTF8. We have to work with MBCS anyway, so I we can
> > simply stay with bytes.
>
> Well, the way Windows (and so Delphi, and recently FPC) handles
> WideStrings (no refcount) feels like a step backwards and would
> introduce some issues for big files and big "lines". And of course I
> don't like the waste of memory :-(
> And Unicode support in D5 is far from comfortable...
>
> > > (...) it would be nice to
> > > clean some of the crust at some point, sure?...
> >
> > Sure.
> > Especially the highlighters contain a lot of IFDEFs needed by the objfpc
> > mode.
> > Maybe we can change here to mode Delphi.
>
> Wow! :-D
> I can't even remember the last time a could have a technical
> discussion on SynEdit :-) Never mind a technical _decision_ :-(
>
> > (...) I vote for keeping mode objfpc,
> > because it is less ambiguous. It helped me to find/avoid some nasty
> > bugs in synedit.
>
> Do you remember by head any of these? I love language corner-cases ;-)
It is some years ago. Probably some pointer arithmetic with typecasts.
> Some changes I'd like to have/do in SynEdit:
> - Move the search method to an external component.
Good idea. We need this anyway for multiline search and column search.
Mattias
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