On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:
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"?
It is not, and neither is it "aware". It is only so when you set
defaultsystemcodepage to utf8 and ignore the problems that causes. That is
not intended functionality.
It is UTF-8 aware in the sense that now you can safely define a 1-byte
string containing UTF-8 and expect the compiler to do the necessary
conversions more or less automatically when needed, such as when
passing it to a routine that expects widestrings.
That was simply impossible prior to the work of Jonas and others.
Michael.
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