On 11/06/2013 01:40 PM, Martin Schreiber wrote: > On Wednesday 06 November 2013 11:27:58 Michael Schnell wrote: > > [...] strings > > It is planned to implement bytestring, bytestring[<maxlength>], string8, > string16 and string32. > string8 is utf-8 encoded, string16 utf-16, string32 ucs4. string8, string16 > and string32 are assignment compatible, OK. > index is code unit not code point!. Supposedly for all string types. (Same as in all Delphi languages I know). Code point indexing would force horrible performance and handling of composed codepoints is not appropriate at all. > msestring = string16. > bytestring can hold any encoding or binary data. There must be a possibility > to define the encoding of string and character constants at compiletime for > the assignment to bytestring. IMHO any not perfectly obvious "automatic" conversion asks for confusion. So (provided your encoding law above) I would not allow for bytestring to be assigned to of from any encoded string. here there user should explicitly call a converter function in the RTL.
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