[fpc-devel] Unicode and UTF8String

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:36:23 +0100
Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:

>[...] Martin Friebe schrieb:
> > I can not see how I can interpret RtlString[1]. If the result is
> > bigger than 128, then I must know what type it is. If it is ANSI,
> > it is a single byte char. If it is utf8, it is a sub-codepoint
> > which will be part of a codepoint.
> > If it is widestring, well yes, here breaks my assumption that
> > RtlString[1] returns a byte.... ouch
> > 
> 
> I see this as a theoretic consideration. Please give a real world (!)
> code example when this causes a problem.

Can you give a real world example where a different RTLString for
each platform solves a problem?

 
> If you assign the result of an rtl function to an rtlstring, this
> means you don't care about the type of rtlstring[1] or the knowledge,
> that it's type is rtlchar is enough for you. If you assign it to an
> ansistring/widestring whatever, you know what you get.

What string type will be TStrings.Items and the many other strings in
the classes.pp?


Mattias