[fpc-devel] Unicode proceedings

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2011-11-18 12:11, Michael Schnell wrote:
> Why should a type that is capable of holding multiple different UTF
> encodings be called "ANSIString". IMHO this is very contra-intuitive.

Every time I see this used in Delphi too, I start to laugh as well. It
makes no sense. Call the damn thing UnicodeString because that is
exactly what it is.

The other annoyance of Delphi is the assumption that the term "Unicode
String" always mean UTF-16. A real slap in the face for unicode.org guys.

Can't we just have a single damn string type like Java and some other
languages. Lets just call it...ummm.... String!  ;-)

Regards,
  - Graeme -