[fpc-devel] simple UTF tests

[Michael Schnell]

On 01/05/2012 12:32 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said:
>> I found that the length of an "AnsiString(CP_UTF16)" is given in terms
>> of bytes and not of Words. Is this like it should ?
> Yes. Afaik that is not a sane combination, but Delphi compatible.

This really is absolutely insane, as in Delphi (I only have "Turbo"), 
the length of a WideString is given in terms of word and not of bytes.

So why introducing major differences in the handling of 16 bit encoded 
Strings such as
  - AnsiString(CP_UTF16)  (provided CP_UTF16 is previously defined to be 
1200)
  - WideString
  - UnicodeString (I can't test this)
?

I feel that much of the Delphi way of handling the "new string"s is 
hazardous and not worth mimicking  and better ways can be found - there 
have been long discussions on this - (while of course for compatibility, 
it is important to provide the Delphi-way behavior forced by a compiler 
option).

-Michael
(BTW.: I still don't know whether Delphi even introduces the insanity 
that when assigning, the auto-conversion is decided regarding the actual 
internal dynamical encoding of the target or if the target's statically 
given Type name is always used.)