In our previous episode, Dani?l Mantione said: > > Taking a step back from Free Pascal and Tiburon.... How do other > > frameworks handle string encodings etc... Frameworks like Java, Qt > > etc... Can't we learn something from them as well? Both Java and Qt > > run on multiple platforms, read/write to files, do string manipulation > > etc.... I don't know those frameworks well, but they have huge > > developer base and backed by huge companies (with plenty of developers > > working on those frameworks). Plus, they have been supporting Unicode > > for ages already! I'm sure we can learn something from their > > experience. > > Both Java & QT use UTF-16 internally.
Afaik Java and .NET (C#) also have the feature that for character based access you need to use a different type (a -builder type). This means they can have separate internal encodings for the base string type, and the chara based editing string types. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
