On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Boost the usage of Unicode in FPC that would boost the usage of FPC >> itself. Unicode is one of the most demanded features (beside cross platform, >> 64bit support, etc) in Delphi since Delphi 7 (2001?). Yet, CodeGear never >> fulfill it until Tiburon. > > Why would it boost FPC usage?
Like Bee said... The time frame has come and gone! If you read the delphi.non-technical newsgroup you would notice that quite a few Delphi developers use FPC for backend features. Linux services etc... They also talked about FPC having 64bit support. If FPC didn't worry to much about compatibility and instead implemented Unicode support long ago like it could have, it might just have boosted FPC usage, beating Borland to the punch by about 7 years. FPC could have attracted and converted more Delphi developers... Yes it's always easy to say that with the benefit of hindsight, but it's not far from the truth. Our company is a case in point. We saw features in FPC that we would like and Borland was going in the wrong direction for us. At that point in time (2-3 years ago) there was no mention of when Delphi would ever support those features. FPC seemed the obvious choice to us, so we moved - an still with no regrets. :-) Yes it costed use some time and effort to port our code and required tools, but it's still been worth it. We can now target different platforms, 32/64bit systems.... Our next evolution for our products are non-English speaking countries, hence the Unicode requirements. But the time frame to beat Delphi with Unicode support has passed... :-( Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/
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