[fpc-devel] cpstrrtl/unicode branch merged to trunk

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Sven Barth schrieb:
> Am 06.09.2013 14:16 schrieb "Hans-Peter Diettrich" <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com 
> <mailto:DrDiettrich1 at aol.com>>:
>  > I'm not sure how efficient a RawByteString version ever can be. By 
> default it has to convert the string into Unicode (Delphi: UTF-16), and 
> the result back to CP_ACP. In these cases it looks more efficient to 
> call the Unicode version immediately, and leave *eventual* further 
> conversions to the compiler. Some routines may implement common 
> processing of true SBCS, but I'm not sure how many these are.
> 
> Not every RTL will use a 16-bit API. On Windows the RawByteString 
> variant might be slower, but on Linux it will be faster as long as the 
> string passed in will be encoded in the system encoding (mostly UTF-8).

Then CP_ACP on Linux will be UTF-8, and automatic conversion can use 
UTF-8 instead of UTF-16.

I consider both UTF-8 and UTF-16 "Unicode", so that it's debatable 
whether then also the UnicodeString type will become UTF-8, for even 
less conversions. But when the user decides that he wants UTF-16 
UnicodeStrings, for simplified handling of BMP text...

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