Marco van de Voort schrieb: > In our previous episode, thaddy said: >> Marco van de Voort wrote: >>> While I think it would be best to use native encoding on all platforms as >>> much as possible, that is an opinion. However not using native encoding for >>> general processing is nuts. So we need the UTF8 type anyway. >>> >> Just to make a small point: the choice for UTF16 was made because of >> market reasons, not technical ones. Chinese Korean, Japanese markets are >> important for Delphi. Try to figure out how to fit that in UTF8. Just a >> thought. > > I don't think that is the reason. Codegear/Borland simply followed > Microsoft. Period. It might be a reason for Microsoft though, but that was > made way way long ago, pre 1994-5.
MS had no choice: when Windows NT 3.1 was released in 1993, UTF-8 was just about being standardized. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
