[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Luiz Americo Pereira Camara schrieb:

>> Can you give me a link? I checked the XE documentation and RTL, and 
>> could not find that RawByteString can hold UTF-16, and my test 
>> confirms that:
>>
> 
> http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/38980
> 
> You may read also:
> 
> http://www.micro-isv.asia/2008/08/using-rawbytestring-effectively/

Thanks, but that's nothing new to me in general, and the RawByteString 
handling doesn't work as documented.


> Are you using Delphi XE or fpc?

I tested with XE, because I wanted to learn more about the possible use 
or RawByteString in the RTL. The result was not very enlightening, 
except for the fact that many years after introduction of string 
encodings and RawByteString the Delphi RTL still contains severe bugs :-(

> I dont have Delphi XE. What i know is from that docs and these discussions

That's why I wanted to test with Delphi first, before I start finding 
bugs or incompatibilities in the FPC implementation.

DoDi