On 16.08.2017 14:43, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
For some unknown
reason you want to store different encodings in a TStrings and fear
the "time-consuming" and loss-prone auto conversions.
It's obvious that a user using a different encoding brand in a string
var than that suggested by TStrings (UTF-8 in fpc, UTF-16 in Delphi)
implicitly triggers auto-conversion when handling the string. This has
several consequences.
It might be a really good idea when e.g. doing some code that in a loop
needs certain operation that might be very fast with UTF-16 but
TStringList would store the data in a more compact way.
It might be time consuming when the conversion is done without being
necessary.
It might be error pone when the user stores some random stuff in the
string that is not able to be handled by the conversion forth and back.
In any case all this happens without the user being aware of, which
might cause frustration.
-Michael
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