[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL

[Tomas Hajny]

Marco van de Voort napsal(a):
>> Dani?l Mantione wrote:
>> > pos('?','Dani?l');
>> >
>> > ... has a different implementation for utf-8 and 8-bit code pages.
>>
>> Why? With utf-8 a string is searched, with 8-bit cp one char. No other
>> char/sequence of char other than ? can generate the byte sequence
>> representing ?
>
> const s : 'Dani?l';
>
> var accent : utf8char;
>
> x:=pos('i','Dani?l');
> accent:=s[x+1];

We could have special support for assignment to type utf8char, couldn't we?

Tomas