[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

On 14/9/2011 06:41, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
> <luizmed at oi.com.br>  wrote:
>> Because if someone for some reason, like porting Delphi code, stays with a
>> UTF16 string, under windows, when using RTL functions TWO conversions will
>> be made:
>>
>> User Code (UTF16)>  RTL (UTF8)>  WINAPI (UTF16)
> This would not happen because I proposed to have 2 versions of the
> routines in the RTL. Not 1 UTF-8 version. There would be both UTF-8
> and UTF-16 versions and one would naturally use the one which matches
> his preferred encoding ... and the RTL would only convert the
> non-native version

OK. The drawback is increasing file size of executables (that are 
already big).

Luiz