On Wednesday 12 October 2011 14.32:38 Jonas Maebe wrote: > On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:17, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > eg: UTF-8 as native string type under *nix systems, and > > UTF-16 under Windows. Why must some platforms get a speed penalty and > > others not, when you force only one encoding on all platforms? > > The reason for doing so would be to make code more easily portable. > Many frameworks use UTF-16 everywhere, from MSE to WxWidgets to Qt to > Java to Mac OS X' system frameworks (even though at the unix/posix > interface level, Mac OS X is also utf-8). That does not mean we have > to do the same, but neither is such a choice per definition guided by > being Windows-centric. > > The main issue with the RTL is however, as far as I am concerned, not > that on some platforms an extra string conversion may be required here > or there, but compatibility with code written for D2009 and later, and > with code written for earlier Delphi/FPC versions. > Interesting thread: https://forums.codegear.com/thread.jspa?threadID=61763&tstart=0#399861
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