On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Martin Schreiber <mse00...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 27 December 2013 21:10:39 Marcos Douglas wrote: >> >> Resume: >> MSElang do no allow to cancatenate different string types (must be >> explicitely converted) > > Correct. > >> and the RTL does not will use string8. > > Wrong. MSElang RTL suports string8 (utf-8), string16, (utf-16), string32 > (UCS4) without preference. Additionally there is bytestring for any 8-bit > encoding or binary data. Please remember, MSElang RTL is the bare minimum,
How do you will code this? Overload for each string type? > file API for example must be implemented in the frameworks. I think this is an option even in FPC and Lazarus, ie, I see people, on the future, creating your own "RTL" because FPC and Lazarus do not agree about Unicode. :-) >> So if I want to use Lazarus (LCL) with MSElang I will continue to have >> the need to convert all call from/to MSElang RTL because they have >> different encode. Is that right? >> > No. You will use LCL as before. LCL implements the needed functions (file API > for example) optimized for Lazarus purpose. As people who like to use MSEgui > will use MSEgui functions which are optimized for use in MSEgui framework and > fpGUI users probably can use a subset of LCL because fpGUI and Lazarus both > use utf-8 and try to be mainstream compatible. It is possible that the > framework developers work together in order to build commonly used base units > and classes. It makes compiler and RTL-framework development somewhat > independent. Very interesting. > The close coupling of compiler and framework is necessary for a commercial > software producer in order to optimize profit, opensource development does > not need it. It is not necessary that the compiler and its environment > dictate how the frameworks must be implemented. +1 I agree. Regards, Marcos Douglas PS: This thread is very interesting. Maybe you should open this topico in mse-list too. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
