On 06/27/2013 01:24 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
Delphi uses "String" as type for the "TStringList" and thus with
Delphi 2009 and newer this is "UnicodeString".
I did assume this.
As I don't have a new Delphi I in turn don't know what exactly
"UnicodeString" means.
From what I read I assume this means "System Encoding" and this again
means UTF-16 or UCS2.
And if all this is true, when storing a - say UTF-8 - String in a
stringlist and retrieving it later to a String variable with encoding
type UTF-8 a dual conversion is done.
To me this seems absolutely silly.
It might be acceptable with Delhi that is Windows-centric and in fact
depreciates the use of codes other than the "System Encoding"
With a cross-platform tool such as fpc, a smarter (though compatible)
implementation should be provided.
-Michael
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