[fpc-devel] simple UTF tests

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Schnell schrieb:
> On 01/05/2012 04:40 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>>
>> Which Delphi version supports AnsiString(CP_UTF16)???
> What is the suggested way to handle UTF-16 with Delphi ?

The obvious: in newer versions use String or UnicodeString :-)

Embarcadero discourages the use of AnsiString in newer versions - this 
string type should be used only for reading/writing existing data 
sources, but the application should use UnicodeStrings internally. 
That's okay WRT performance, no further Encoding conversions required.

When FPC implements an really polymorphic string type (of charsize 
1..4), the implementors are responsible for all arising problems, like 
high runtime and resource overhead, PChar quirks etc. Even if the Delphi 
developers initially wanted to support such an string type, they later 
came to a strict separation of strings of a different charsize.

DoDi