On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:43:24 +0100 Michael Schnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > We were talking of a world where strings consist of widechars, not > > about the current Lazarus, weren't we? > I'm not sure. Of course WideStrings and WideChars are easier to be > used, as in Europe and America problems with surrogate pairs will > seldom arise, but IMHO the user should be enabled to define what kind > of string encoding he uses (UTF-8, UTF-16 or UCS2, trading speed > against memory). The compiler should do the dirty work of converting > automatically. > > With that the current Lazarus LCL would be perfectly usable (even if > the user decides to use UCS2 WideStrings and thus can use WideChars). > > OTOH, regarding an improved Lazarus, IMHO he should be enabled to > choose or compile an LCL version with a UTF16 or UCS2 WideStrings > API, for improved speed with GUI handling. AFAIK no one measured a noticeable speed difference between UTF8/16 when handling GUI. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
