In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said: > > But if you use UTF8String you need to be aware that you can't do simple > > and totally normal things like s := copy(s, 3); to get the first three > > characters of a string. Really finding the first three characters of a > > string is an interesting and time consuming task with utf8 ;) . > > This is also a simplified view. > - firstly, which real world (!) task really requires to execute an > operation like this, mostly it's something like copy(s,pos(...),...); > - secondly, a properly coded utf-16 application shouldn't do this > either: it doesn't handle surrogates properly and e.g. umlauts can be > encoded in all utf flavours as two "chars": base letter plus the umlaut > (the two dots).
More importantly, most of such routines will be implicitely tied to a certain language or language group already. The idea that UCS2 simply expands the character range, and the rest stays the same is naieve. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
