[fpc-devel] Unit for handling UTF-8 strings

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Mattias Gaertner
<nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:35:40 +0200
> Kostas Michalopoulos <badsectoracula at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >[...]I looked around in FPC 2.6.2's units and found nothing beyond
> > utf8encode/decode (which in linux requires a C widestring manager that
> i'd
> > like to avoid... and doesn't really help in all cases since Unicode can
> > exceed the 16bit range).
>
> It does not require a widestring manager.
>
>
The documentation says otherwise:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/utf8encode.html
"For this function to work, a widestring manager must be installed."


> See for example the Lazarus lazutf8 unit.
> AFAIK there are no UTF16 functions either.
> Lazarus provides a lazutf16 unit too.
>
>
Is there a reason for those to be in Lazarus only? Can they be moved to FPC?
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