[fpc-devel] Unicode resource strings

[Jonas Maebe]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Mon, 20 Aug 2012:

> So could somebody make a definitive statement: for basic two-byte  
> Unicode handling, what types should be used?

unicodestring, because it is generally somewhat faster than widestring  
on Windows. On non-Windows platforms, widestring=unicodestring in any  
case.

> I've got a couple of terminal emulators using WideChar and  
> WideString for internal manipulation, what /should/ I be using? and  
> where does it leave things like Sorokin's regex unit, which  
> similarly use WideChar and WideString?

widechar = unicodechar on all platforms. On Windows, where widestring  
is not the same as unicodestring, one can be converted to the other  
without any dataloss. Again, you may get some minor speed penalty on  
Windows, but it's unlikely you'll notice it.


Jonas