[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Martin Schreiber]

On Thursday 15 September 2011 10:27:28 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> 
> And  considering the  amount  of  text processing  apps  I have  written
> (plenty of them), indexed character access  is really not a top priority
> or a often used feature.
> 
Graeme, please have look into:
http://www.lazarusforum.de/
and
http://www.freepascal.ru/

There are plenty of user problems with utf-8 character access and string 
length. I assume 100% of them would be solved with utf-16.
BTW, do you remember how long it took until the current FPC WideString and 
UnicodeString were reliable? And now there should be an even more complex 
string type implemented?
shudder....

Martin