[fpc-devel] Unicode support in RTL - Roadmap

[Michael Schnell]

> I prefer it to be counted in bytes. If it is counted in Bytes then I
> can build a routine that counts in real chars. And we already have a
> lot of code to handle utf-8 inside ansisstring which depends on that.
>
> Counting the elements in real chars is very ineficient.
>   
This is commonly agreed, But counting in code elements breaks old code 
counting in code points sometimes is more handy. That is why I vote for 
making the default syntax (s[i], pos(), copy(), ...) user selectable, 
while of course providing dedicated functions for both flavors.

-Michael