Michael Schnell schrieb: > >>> Ignoring that ANSI Characters > $7F are locale depending makes a program >>> work perfectly in a single country and mostly decently in many others. >>> >> >> So it works in far east with its multi byte ansi encodings? >> > These of course are not part of the "many others". (BTW handling Russian > with ANSI is not easy at all, we already have been there :) ). > > But those that do software for "far east" are not likely to ignore > multi-byte characters in utf8 coded strings (as the OP suggested). > > -Michael
The point is: if everybody takes care of the fact that ansistrings can be multibyte, having utf-8 in ansistrings (if it's the locale encoding), is no big deal at all. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
