[fpc-devel] Unicode and UTF8String

[Florian Klaempfl]

Michael Schnell schrieb:
> 
>>> Ignoring that ANSI Characters > $7F are locale depending makes a program
>>> work perfectly in a single country and mostly decently in many others.
>>>     
>>
>> So it works in far east with its multi byte ansi encodings?
>>   
> These of course are not part of the "many others". (BTW handling Russian
> with ANSI is not easy at all, we already have been there :)  ).
> 
> But those that do software for "far east" are not likely to ignore
> multi-byte characters in utf8 coded strings (as the OP suggested).
> 
> -Michael

The point is: if everybody takes care of the fact that ansistrings can
be multibyte, having utf-8 in ansistrings (if it's the locale encoding),
is no big deal at all.