On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 14:26:08 +0100
Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote:
On 18/11/14 19:51, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:17:25 +0100
Thanks, but there is no UTF-8 RTL.
That's what I thought too a week ago.
FPC 2.7 made an old dream come true. :)
Nevertheless, please stop calling it the UTF-8 RTL.
It will give people the wrong impression, because there is no and may well
never be an UTF-8
RTL. It is no way whatsoever specific to UTF-8, nor will it
automagically work correctly with UTF-8 encoded data in all scenarios
(e.g. when DefaultSystemCodePage<>CP_UTF8, or when the file system API
doesn't support all characters that can be encoded using UTF-8, ...) or
on all platforms (some platforms don't even support multiple code pages).
Hmm, maybe you have a point there.
It is similar to normal RTL and RTL with CurrencyString:='Euro'.
When I say "Euro RTL" it does not work correctly in all
scenarios, but I'm sure some people think it does.
I doubt that I can come up with a name, that everyone understands
correct, but I have to call it something.
What about "RTL with UTF8 as default"?
That seems wrong, since UTF-8 is not the default on Windows ?
Let's try to understand first why do you insist on the "UTF-8" in the name ?
Maybe "UTF-8 aware" is better, if you really want the UTF-8 in the name.
Michael.
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