Mattias Gaertner ha scritto:
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:45:12 +0200
"Razvan Adrian Bogdan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does someone know, *how* Codegear will change the VCL to support
unicode?
My guess. Nobody knows, not even Codegear.
They've become more and more dependent on marketing rather than on sound
technical strategies.
This made them lose a lot of money (because marketing vision never goes
beyond next quarter) and be for sale since an year, without anybody buying.
http://dn.codegear.com/article/36620
This just says:
The standard string in the Delphi language will become a Unicode string.
AFAIK there's not such a thing as a Unicode string. There's a Unicode
standard, and a number of implementations such as UTF-8 UTF-16 UCS-2,
UCS-4 etc. This proves my point. It originates from marketing, now it's
to developers to scratch their head.
If we scratch our heads better than them, and it appears to me that the
process has already begun, we may end up with a better solution before
they've made up their mind.
(I say "we" just because I feel part of the game)
Does this mean 'string' switches from 'ansistring' to 'widestring' or
a new string type?
IMHO opinion the good question is "what's the best way to approach the
Unicode problem?" It may be much more important be compatible with the
existant software base, for instance, than with a last minute solution
offered by Codegear, under marketing pressure, which may be rejected by
users.
It's not a good thing to underestimate competitors, but overestimating
them can be even worse.
Just my two cents.
Giuliano
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Giuliano Colla
Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong (O. Wilde)
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