cpstrnew branch (was Re: [fpc-devel] Freepascal 2.4.0rc1 released)

Graeme Geldenhuys graeme at mastermaths.co.za
Wed Nov 11 13:49:52 CET 2009


Tomas Hajny wrote:
> 
> I'm afraid that your assumption about the number of codepages is
> incorrect. The MIBENUM value defined in list at
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets goes up to 2059 at the
> moment.


Is FPC realistically going to implement all 2059 of those? I still think
even using the 63 most frequently used code page values should be ample
to keep FPC developers happy for quite some time.


But thank you, I stand corrected. Just goes to show, you should never
assume anything when it comes to programming. ;-)


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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