[fpc-devel] Unicode conversion routines

Tomas Hajny XHajT03 at mbox.vol.cz
Tue Nov 25 00:18:08 CET 2008


On 24 Nov 08, at 21:49, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said:
> > > 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 :)
> 
> Worse, the Dos users are the worst with respect to binary size syndrome.

Well, as long as it's optional (as suggested by the original post), 
noone should complain... ;-)

Tomas




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