[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL

[Marco van de Voort]

> Op Wed, 16 Nov 2005, schreef Micha Nelissen:
> 
> > Dani?l Mantione wrote:
> > > To be short, Juras B. wants to add a Unicode Win32 target, so in the
> > > standard RTL things like Tlist etc. use ansistrings, while in the Unicode
> > > RTL they use widestrings.
> > 
> > Why not use ansistrings with UTF-8 ?
> 
> Because then you will have to modify routines like pos, insert, delete. 
> Since that is not possible, you would get a pos_utf8, insert_utf8, etc.

You have to anyway. Windows XP+ supports surrogate pairs (IOW true UTF16)
see http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#UTF16

One could argue that codepoints over 40k are rarely used, but if we really
do major work like this, it should be done good. And it should be a good
compromise for all OSes, not just windows.