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

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Fri, 26 Sep 2008, schreef Marco van de Voort:

> In our previous episode, Dani?l Mantione said:
>>> as I know D2009 (I think) handles this correctly, but I have no idea
>>> how.
>>
>> Let me put it like this: Someone writing a Russian/Arabic/Japanese spell
>> checker does not have to handle surrogates with UTF-16, but he does with
>> UTF-8, i.e. UTF-16 is much better for them than UTF-8.
>
> Are you sure? There is a CJK plane above $FFFF.

Chinese yes, Japanese is fully BMP.

  Afaik these are non
> simplified glyphs used for titles etc. Less than normal script, but not that
> rare.
>
>> Someone writing a spell checker for old-Egyptian Hieroglyphs will have to
>> deal with surrogates. For those people UTF-16 has few advantages over
>> UTF-8, (allthough in practice it's still a bit easier to handle than UTF-8).
>
> IMHO such assumptions can be made for end user businesscode. (and only if the CJK
> pages above $FFFF are ancient and not in modern use), however the RTL and
> other libraries should be simply unicode complaint. Period.

Yes.

Daniël