Ok, I'll start up front by announcing my ignorance on these two items: UTF-8 and
Unicode.
After reading some discussions of implementing Unicode/UTF-8 support
in Lazarus I thought I would ask. Could someone give the watered down
explanation to me (and probably others too)? My mind is trying to
wrap around the two concepts as one issue, but I believe I'm just
getting myself more confused.
I read in Wikipedia about Unicode and UTF-8, but still it makes no sense.
Also as an example in Object Pascal, what is involved in changing a
function (or app) that uses standard ANSI strings to support UTF-8 or
Unicode or whatever it should be called.
When am I supposed to use String and WideString? Must I change all
references of String to WideString? Is WideString = UTF-8 or Unicode
or UTF-16 or UCS-2 (whatever the hell that is)? See my problem... I
am totally lost. :-)
Example:
function MyFooBar(const AStrValue: String); String
begin
.... do whatever in here
Result := <some string value>;
end;
....
var
s, r: String;
begin
s := "Graeme";
r := MyFooBar(s);
...
end;
Many thanks in advance,
- Graeme -
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