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

[Michael Schnell]

>> Is UTF-16 Widestring in FPC (and Delphi 200x ? ) not done just ignoring the
>> surrogates ?
>>     
>
> Lets hope not, 
I don't think,  full UTF-16 really would be desirable desirable over UC-2.

Imagine you have a string of some million characters (e.g. a Book). All 
functions that need to find the n-th character (like x[n], copy, ...) 
would take forever, as they need to scan the complete string (if not 
widestring is a rather complex tree-like format).

-Michael
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