[fpc-devel] Unicode and UTF8String

[Florian Klaempfl]

Mattias Gärtner schrieb:
> Zitat von Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org>:
> 
>> Mattias Gaertner schrieb:
>>> You can optimize for one encoding or optimize for one per platform. I
>>> know how to optimize for widestrings, for ansistring and for UTF-8
>>> strings, but I have no experience in optimizing for multiple
>>> encodings.
>> Don't forget that the ansistring type is actually multiple encodings and
>> even multi byte (even not considering UTF-8). The point is: nobody took
>> care of it.
> 
> Yes, they did. They ran their programs only on systems with ansi encoded strings
> or simply passed the strings unchanged.
> That's why the lazarus solution even work with broken UTF-8 strings.
> But now a lot of implicit conversions will be added so all strings must have
> valid encodings. You can no longer pass unknown encoded strings through the
> functions.

First, there will be a bytestring type being not converted. Secondly,
I'am rather sure we find ways to cut these conversions as much as
possible down.