On 06/27/2013 01:48 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
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.
Yes.
To me this seems absolutely silly.
Correct. Using UTF8 on Windows is silly, as it is not a native string type,
and is never used by default.
Yep. But fpc is not windows-centric, thus i´rt should not force the user
to n encoding that is suggested by Windows. And (at least the
definitions in "interface" of) TStringList should be not OS or
arch-depending. Thus using a String type that imposes a fixed encoding
or (even worse) that might change according to the Arch/OS setting when
compiling is a rather bad idea.
As imposing a dual unnecessary conversion or forcing the user to use a
certain encoding when working with TStringList is a bad idea as well.
This IMHO we do need an appropriately versatile String type and (a
decently fast) implementation.
-Michael
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