[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Fl?vio Etrusco said:
> compatibility feature, and as such should care more about correctness
> and ease-of-use rather than performance. I thought the endless bugs
> WRT to char vs codepoint indexes, even in Java-developed software,
> would buy my argument...

IMHO you are seeking the problems in the tools, while the problem is PEBKAC

The base principle should be to mess with strings as little as possible, in
that sense you are right.

I don't like the Java/C# way that you have to manually allocate extra
objects (stringbuilders etc) to get(performant) access to the characters though.