Daniël Mantione wrote: > > Op Wed, 16 Nov 2005, schreef Tomas Hajny: > > >>Big overhead (double maintenance efforts for all targets supporting this >>schisma). :-( I'd say it's better to successively identify the weak points >>and address these case by case. >
Yes. > > I know, I'm all for abolishing Chinese (and perhaps Korean), the only > language(s) that absolutely cannot be written in with an 8 byte code..... > > However, it won't work that way in this world and also people in other > scripts tend to like Unicode. > > Now, take for example the FCL. Tstringlist uses ansistrings, for example. > > Now there are several solutions: > 1. Make a Twidestringlist That's what's the use of polymorphism. > 2. Make Tstringlist use widestrings internally and add methods for both > ansistrings and widestrings. > 3. Make an FCL with ansistrings and an FCL with widestrings. > > I have been convinced that 3 causes the least maintenance trouble and the > least overhead for people that don't need it. Did you ever release building, try to get regression test results in shape etc.? > The reason is strings are > used everywhere in about any library. It cannot be reduced to a few weak > points :/ I think it can. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
