On 09/15/2011 09:57 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
What the hell has "experience" got to do with the preference between
UTF-8 and UTF-16?
In fact users want to deal with "decently coded characters" and not with
"cryptic bytes some of which together are representing a character".
(e.g. when doing MyChar := MyString[1]; )
Here UTF-8 code in a type called "ANSISting" is a no-go.
UTF-16 code in WideChar, and WideString come quite close to this in the
Western world, but I think this is not good enough.
Full 4 byte Unicode comes even closer, but there still are some hard to
handle double-DWord codes plus the memory usage is huge.
So Delphi NewStrings (cpstrnew) and a 32 Bit Char type seems like the
most user-friendly way to go. (But of course eating a lot of performance.)
-Michael
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