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

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 20:18:51 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

>[...] 
> FPC is preparing for a complete unicode solution, with proper language support. 

Great.
I guess, you mean encoded string types.

But even then, FPC should contain UTF-8 and UTF-16 functions.

> At best, these units are a temporary solution.

You might be right about the UTF-8 classes like TFileStreamUTF8 (I
really hope).
But I doubt that about basic UTF-8/16 functions.

Mattias