On Sun, 14 May 2006 17:36:15 -0300
"Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/12/06, Borut Maricic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I agree - this is also my understanding after the recent
> > thread. It seems that it would be highly inefficient on
> > native utf-16 machines (such as WinNT+), but it should work,
> > in principle.
>
> This is also very inefficient on iso systems, such as win 9x, but this
> is necessare so you only need to provide strings in utf-8, otherwise
> you would need strings in iso, utf-8 and utf-16
The question is: should the LCL use the 'native' string type and let the
applications write three times the code. Or should the LCL use UTF-8 and map
internally in the interfaces and let the applications write once and compile
anywhere.
Mattias
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