On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:55:44 +0200 Martin Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 July 2008 18.32:30 Mattias Gärtner wrote: > > > > > > In this routines length(widestring), widestring[index], > > > pwidechar^, pwidechar[index], pwidechar + offset, pwidechar - > > > pwidechar and inc(pwidechar)/dec(pwidechar) are used often. This > > > can't be done with utf-8 strings. > > > > Ehm, do you know, that UTF-8 has the advantage, that many ascii > > functions work without change? > > For example ReplaceChar or searching a substring? > > > Sure, but for layout calculation and the like we need fast access to > codepoints. Can you point me to an example function, where this is critical? Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal