[fpc-devel] Qt, Java and Unicode support

[Tomas Hajny]

On Tue, December 2, 2008 13:59, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Sergei Gorelkin <sergei_gorelkin at mail.ru>
> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately what those frameworks did isn't directly applicable to
>> FPC.
>> First, as I understand, they have only one (UTF-16) string type. This is
>> good because it avoids whatever mess related to conversions, but not an
>> option for FPC (because FPC requires compatibility with existing code).
>
> Then for backward compatibility use UTF-8 as the only string type.
> That's what UTF-8 was designed for - backward compatibility.  That's
> also the reason LCL uses UTF-8.
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As already stated several times, UTF-8 is not backwards compatible to the
various character set encodings in active use (even with FPC), UTF-8 is
only backwards compatible to plain 7-bit ASCII.

Tomas