[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Martin Schreiber]

On Wednesday 12 October 2011 14.32:38 Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:17, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > eg: UTF-8 as native string type under *nix systems, and
> > UTF-16 under Windows. Why must some platforms get a speed penalty and
> > others not, when you force only one encoding on all platforms?
> 
> The reason for doing so would be to make code more easily portable.
> Many frameworks use UTF-16 everywhere, from MSE to WxWidgets to Qt to
> Java to Mac OS X' system frameworks (even though at the unix/posix
> interface level, Mac OS X is also utf-8). That does not mean we have
> to do the same, but neither is such a choice per definition guided by
> being Windows-centric.
> 
> The main issue with the RTL is however, as far as I am concerned, not
> that on some platforms an extra string conversion may be required here
> or there, but compatibility with code written for D2009 and later, and
> with code written for earlier Delphi/FPC versions.
> 
Interesting thread:
https://forums.codegear.com/thread.jspa?threadID=61763&tstart=0#399861

Martin