[fpc-devel] Unicode and UTF8String

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Tue Dec 2 12:00:32 CET 2008


> UTF-8 is unicode and it is the system encoding on linux, OS X, some BSDs and
> Solaris. So ansistrings are UTF-8 there.
>   
I still don't understand what ANSI has to do with "System".

AFAIK, The term "ANSI Code" stands for a (codepage depending) definition 
for a character encoding and Unicode is another one. Both are 
independent of Operating systems.

-Michael



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