[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Mattias Gaertner]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com> hat am 14.
September 2011 um 10:51 geschrieben:

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Mattias Gaertner
> <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> > It's more than theory.
> > You can use file names under Linux that are no valid UTF-8.
> > At work I see it every week.
>
> In this case then for sure we cannot only have file routines only in
> UTF-16, because that would make it impossible to identify many files
> in Linux... 
Well, "many" is a bit exaggerated. It does not happen on most Linux systems.
And, yes, UTF-16 is not enough under Linux. 
But this is nothing new. This was explained several times on this list. See the
many threads about unicode strings. 
 
Mattias
 
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