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

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 11:32:18 CEST 2008


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Daniƫl Mantione
<daniel.mantione at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> Russian, Arabic, Japanese are languages in daily use on computers, countless
> electronic documents in these languages exist.

And most documents that exist in the world are in UTF-8 format: Save
to file, HTML documents etc... :-)

> In many situations it will not be necessary to bother with
> surrogates at all. In some situations we may just accept patches if someone
> is interrested.

Oh? So what now - is FPC going to only implement UCS-2 support (like
MSEgui did).


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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