[fpc-devel] Unicode support - for the 20th time... ;-)

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Florian Klaempfl
<florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> Ok, two questions for the example above:
> - how do you maintain backward compatibility?
> - how do you load a plain old ansi file?


If the file is UTF-8 or ANSI, the above  should work. UTF-8 was
designed to be backward compatible with ANSI. One of the beauties of
UTF-8.

But yes, with other encodings it's a problem. And exactly the reason I
think TStrings and the whole FPC for that matter should start
supporting Unicode somehow.  And that's why I urge all core FPC
developers to try and finalize a Unicode design.  Otherwise you leave
it up to developers to keep adding such shitty hacks which could cause
more issues in the long term - instead of solving issues.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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