On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:53:44 +0100 Hans-Peter Diettrich <drdiettri...@aol.com> wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > > > How is ThousandSeparator and DecimalSeparator supposed to work it > > TFormatSettings? If you switched the RTL to UTF-8 or UTF-16 a Russian > > thousand separator (4-byte non-breaking white space character) for > > example will not fit into a Char type. > > The Char type is quite useless with Unicode, Correction: *This* Char type needs to be extended. "Char" in general is very useful. > at least if it has less > than 3 bytes (4 for UTF-8). There exist many more flaws in the RTL/LCL, > assuming that a character always fits into a Char (like the Pos > overload...). There is a Pos overload for strings. Where is the flaw in Pos? > In the best case Char could be retyped into an string (substring), That would be wrong in 99.9% of the cases. > so > that it can hold any Unicode character *and* its encoding. Unicode > stringhandling in general should always use substrings, for the same > reasons. Until then 99.9% of occurences of Char in UTF-8 aware library > or application code can be considered bugs :-( > > The FPC team can sort out the real low-level code (most probably only > the string conversion routines), the rest will become Delphi > incompatible when fixed. Please give real world examples. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
