[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Thu Sep 15 09:56:46 CEST 2011


On 09/14/2011 07:24 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Unicode users have no use for an char type, instead they have to use 
> substrings for every logical character.
Yep.

The problem is that a "normal" programmer (especially a beginner) does 
not know (and does not want to know, and IMHO should not be forced to 
know), that (s)he is a "Unicode User".

A good programming system should hide this "deeply technical stuff" as 
far as possible. Otherwise we can go back to ASM programming.

-Michael



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