[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL

[Marco van de Voort]

> >> >
> >> > ... 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?

It would be horribly slow, since this would apply to length too, and think of
while i<length(x) do  inc(i);  like constructs.

I think the avg delphi code simply assumes 100% that chars are fixed width.