[fpc-devel] Is calling the Windows Unicode APIs really faster than the ANSI API's?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said:
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Florian Klaempfl
> > <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> >> Being honest, imo UTF-8 is only a hack to get unicode on platforms like
> >> unix.
> > 
> > I don't know where you get that information, 
> 
> Rather simple: initially in unicode 1.0 there was only a 16 bit encoding.

Problem is that UTF-16 is just the same hack. And they couldn't move to
UTF-32 since it is so memory hungry.