Daniël Mantione wrote:
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> Op Wed, 16 Nov 2005, schreef Florian Klaempfl:
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>>Daniël Mantione wrote:
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>>>Op Wed, 16 Nov 2005, schreef Micha Nelissen:
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>>>>Daniël Mantione wrote:
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>>>>>To be short, Juras B. wants to add a Unicode Win32 target, so in the
>>>>>standard RTL things like Tlist etc. use ansistrings, while in the Unicode
>>>>>RTL they use widestrings.
>>>>
>>>>Why not use ansistrings with UTF-8 ?
>>>
>>>
>>>Because then you will have to modify routines like pos, insert, delete.
>>>Since that is not possible, you would get a pos_utf8, insert_utf8, etc.
>>
>>No, why? When working with utf-8 strings, you don't use character positions.
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> pos('ë','Daniël');
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> ... has a different implementation for utf-8 and 8-bit code pages.
Why? With utf-8 a string is searched, with 8-bit cp one char. No other
char/sequence of char other than ë can generate the byte sequence representing ë
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