Michael Schnell schrieb: > > A decent system should be able to do the necessary conversions > automatically:
This is a simplified view which ignores the resource wasting of this apporoach not visible in the academical example below. The conversion utf-8<->utf-16 is a very expensive operation and the compiler has to insert it all over the place and people would cry about the performance of their programs. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel