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

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Daniël Mantione said:
> > 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.

Afaik Java and .NET (C#) also have the feature that for character based
access you need to use a different type (a -builder type). 

This means they can have separate internal encodings for the base string
type, and the chara based editing string types.