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

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Martin Schreiber <fpmse at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> It seems you prefer utf-8 over utf-16 for internal string encoding in a GUI
> framework. Why?
> I prefer utf-16 over utf-8 for MSEide+MSEgui because *all* current users
> (including the Chinese) can use simple string index to access the characters
> of their used languages and almost nobody can use string index to access
> characters in utf-8.

In my years of experience, string index access is not a requirement.
In the last four years working on our current project I have still not
had a need for string index access. It's a overrated statement as far
as I'm concerned.

UTF8CharAtByte() or UTF8Copy() if needed is fine for me.  And if you
are parsing a string, it happens sequentially anyway, so it's very
easy to track characters in a utf8 string.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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