[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL

[Florian Klaempfl]

Daniël Mantione wrote:

> 
> Op Wed, 16 Nov 2005, schreef peter green:
> 
> 
>>>pos('ë','Daniël');
>>>
>>>... has a different implementation for utf-8 and 8-bit code pages.
>>
>>one little desgin feature of utf-8 is that is was carefully designed to be
>>friendly to byte-orientated code. No special precautions are needed for
>>substring matching in utf-8!
> 
> 
> Which is the "be ignorant about multibyte character sets" model. Nothing 
> wrong with that model, but it has its limitations.

Why? What he says is correct?