On 01 Dec 2008, at 20:57, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
What string type will be TStrings.Items and the many other strings
in
the classes.pp?
Not yet decided though I'd make them RTLString as well.
I think you can't change TStrings because that would break all code
using it (huges amount of code).
I would recommend adding a similar class with a different name.
In that case, I would recommend giving it the "string with attached
encoding" style type so you don't need 5 tstrings variants.
Regarding how to deal with file system representations, conversions
etc, it may also be interesting to look at Apple's NSString class (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSString_Class/Reference/NSString.html
) or, if you prefer a procedural approach, CFStrings (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFStringRef/index.html
)
I'm not suggesting to mimik that exact API, but only to see what kind
of APIs they support (and are deprecating). NSString/CFString (one is
just an OOP version of the other) are also a "universal string
container" type, with embedded encoding.
For example, there are routines such as
* CFStringGetCharacterAtIndex() (and more optimised approaches as
documented there, such as CFStringGetRangeOfComposedCharactersAtIndex())
* CFStringGetFileSystemRepresentation() (basically the "rtlstring"
version of the string)
* CFStringConvertWindowsCodepageToEncoding() ("Returns the Core
Foundation encoding constant that is the closest mapping to a given
Windows codepage identifier.")
* ...
The advantage when using such a type is that you also only need to
convert it (internally, hidden from the user) on demand or when some
helper routine requires it (such as e.g. case-insensitive
comparisons). Otherwise, no conversion whatsoever is necessary.
Jonas
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