From: "Michael Schnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
And yes, if you lazy, you lose performance due to automatic
conversions. It
has always been that way (also when mixing short and ansistring)
Of course you are very right here !
If you are lazy and write your code like you are used to, you will
not get optimum performance with a new compiler that now allows for
Unicode. But the code still needs to be working as expected (as with
a compiler version that does not allow for Unicode, but simply uses
ANSI or whatever OS and locale depending 8-Bit code).
In most programs that will not be a problem at all as doing
extensive string calculations in user-code is not necessary.
Of course, if you want to take real advantage of Unicode (using
characters outside your current locale) or if you want to optimize
(for speed or for memory size) you need to be aware of the Unicode
stuff and write your code appropriately.
It is planned to allow users to build ANSI version of RTL which will
be fully compatible with existing user code.
But if you choose to use unicode RTL, you must keep in mind all
unicode specific things...
Yury.
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