[fpc-devel] Unicode conversion routines

[Florian Klaempfl]

JoshyFun schrieb:
> Hello Florian,
> 
> Sunday, November 23, 2008, 6:51:35 PM, you wrote:
> 
>>> Only general case, language tailoring is a completly different beast.
> [...]
> 
> FK> I think we should simply depend on the OS in this case like the cwstring
> FK> unit does though linux doesn't make life easy in this case, it requires
> FK> always a conversion to ucs-4 to get a string upper/lower cased.
> 
> Of course if OS provides functions, use them! they should be properly
> implemented and will be even faster without memory serious impact, but
> I'm quite sure that not all functions will be provided by all OSs.
> Maybe a small subset should be available for platforms that do not
> provide native support like DOS and a WideString or UnicodeString is
> available, maybe as a separate unit to be linked in only if needed.
> 

Well, if anybody volounteers, something similiar to cwstrings for unix
could be done :)