On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:46 AM, <michael.vancann...@wisa.be> wrote: >>> Can you clarify a bit. When you say "unicode string" to you mean UTF-16 >>> (Delphi's definition of a unicode string), or do you mean a Unicode >>> string in the true sense - it can be utf-8 or utf-16 etc depending on >>> the platform's native encoding. >> >> This has not yet been decided. > > IMHO a platform-dependent string would be the worse solution of all > ... far worse then migrating to UTF-16. > > It adds tiny bit of speed while it puts a large development complexity > burdain ... I imagine how one would explain that kind of thing to > newbies ... >
Why would the internal enconding of a RTLString/UnicodeString have to affect any effect how you program if the RTL/API is done right? -Flávio _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
