[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Wed Sep 14 17:19:12 CEST 2011


Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:

> If FPC has true unicode support, then all functions should work correct
> with just the UnicodeString type. That type's encoding is based on the
> native encoding of each platform. NO performance hit required.

Can you specify, *which* strings ever *require* platform specific 
encoding? Beyond filenames and environment strings?

UI strings (GUI, console) are more thightly bound to user code and 
component/widgetset libraries, than to a platform API (see my other comment)

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