In our previous episode, Dani?l Mantione said: > > That's highly dependant on what you application does! If your > > application primarily parses text files, it's relevant. :-) > > Shortstrings & ansistrings won't go away. You'll still be able to code > fast text file parsers. Note that in such cases your application won't > process unicode, taking the numbers example again: As soon as your > application accepts arabic numbers everywhere western numbers are allowed, > you want the parsing to happen in UTF-16.
Accepting both Arabic and Westernized Arabic numerals would possibly break a lot of code anyway, since to string and back wouldn't be reversible. (it actually already isn't with Delphi I know, due to hex and padding handling, but this would be a magnitude worse) You can't seperate val from str, and what would str(100,s) do? _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
