Op 2011-02-14 21:29, Mattias Gaertner het geskryf: > > Yes, since for example Linux allows non valid UTF-8 as file names, > so any auto conversion of file names to UTF-16 is an error.
I have never noticed that, plus that seems more like a bug in Linux's filesystem (whichever one you use - I use JFS only, and haven't noticed such issues). So maybe file a bug report with the Linux project instead or working around the issue forever. > For instance searching needs a lot of compares. Comparing two > strings normally fails on the very first characters. An auto conversion > will always convert the whole string including allocating and releasing You are missing the point. If full Unicode support exists in FPC and Lazarus - say via the UnicodeString string type, then the encoding of the search string and the encoding of the text inside the editor will be the same - thus no conversion needed. The only exception here will be a "Find in files" under Windows, where Windows uses UTF-16, but normally files are stored as UTF-8. Though Mac, Linux and *BSD will not be affected by this as they use UTF-8 pretty much everywhere. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus