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

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Fri, 26 Sep 2008, schreef Graeme Geldenhuys:

>
> Taking a step back from Free Pascal and Tiburon.... How do other
> frameworks handle string encodings etc... Frameworks like Java, Qt
> etc... Can't we learn something from them as well?  Both Java and Qt
> run on multiple platforms, read/write to files, do string manipulation
> etc....  I don't know those frameworks well, but they have huge
> developer base and backed by huge companies (with plenty of developers
> working on those frameworks). Plus, they have been supporting Unicode
> for ages already! I'm sure we can learn something from their
> experience.

Both Java & QT use UTF-16 internally.

Daniël