[fpc-devel] RTL and Unicode filenames operations.

[Michael Schnell]

On 02/01/2010 10:53 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> It makes sense to take the
> encoding closest to the system, to at least allow minimal conversion
> scenarios.
>   

Of course !

If the RTL is done with dynamically encoded strings you would need to
take care that anything string value that neither comes from the GUI
framework (and thus is encoded in a way the RTL designer might know but
should ignore as largely as possible to produce as portable code as
possible) nor comes from the user code (the RTL designers can't know
which encoding they use) is handled appropriately. I suppose most of
this is string constants. If possible, those should be allocated with
the system encoding at compile time.

I feel that the runtime performance overhead necessary for doing the RTL
with dynamically encoded strings is not too big, provided the RTL itself
does not force automatic conversions (e.g. by inappropriately encoded
string constants) .

-Michael