[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL

[Florian Klaempfl]

Daniël Mantione wrote:
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> Op Wed, 16 Nov 2005, schreef Micha Nelissen:
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>>Daniël Mantione wrote:
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>>>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 ?
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> 
> 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.

No, why? When working with utf-8 strings, you don't use character positions.

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>>>IMHO this is indeed a good solution, but one with consequences. Could
>>>somebody give his opinion?
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>>You postpone a decision that no one wants to make. It is not a solution to
>>anything. The RTL will have duplicate code. I don't like it.
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> 
> I don't like it either.
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> Daniël
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