[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Wed, 16 Nov 2005, schreef Florian Klaempfl:

> Daniël Mantione wrote:
> > 
> > Op Wed, 16 Nov 2005, schreef Micha Nelissen:
> > 
> > 
> >>Daniël 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.
> 
> No, why? When working with utf-8 strings, you don't use character positions.

pos('ë','Daniël');

... has a different implementation for utf-8 and 8-bit code pages.

Daniël