[fpc-devel] Are LazUtils - XML units still necessary ?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:35:52 -0300
> Daniel Gaspary <dgaspary at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Since FPC 3.00 has a new Unicode support I was wondering about that.
>>
>> AFAIK, support to Unicode(Or only UTF8?) was the main reason to the
>> existence of the units Laz2_Dom, Laz2_XmlRead/Write, etc.
>
> Both supports Unicode.
> The main difference is they use UTF-8 strings instead of UTF-16
> strings. This saves memory and avoid conversions when using UTF-8
> strings in your application.
> They also have some flags like xrfPreserveWhiteSpace, which preserves
> indentation.

Meanwhile this is also possible in fcl-xml AFAIK.

I think the main difference is the use of UTF8 versus UTF16.

Michael.