Summary on Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicode file routines proposal

[Florian Klaempfl]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>> Why not just introduce a set of utf-16 routines with utf16string type
>>> like the new Delphi?
>> Because it's not cross platform.
> 
> Why isn't is cross-platform?
> 

Because using utf-16 on linux is very unnatural, same for utf-8 on
windows. Platforms like go32 even don't have any unicode. Coding
platform independent but fast applications is really ugly having fixed
types.