[fpc-devel] ThousandSeparator

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:51:41 +0100 (CET)
Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > The ThousandSeparator is "char" and supports only 1 byte characters.
> > For example French and Russian need more.
> > Are there any plans to extend it?
> 
> Plans: yes. Time: no.
> 
> Maybe a widechar is sufficient ?

The range is sufficient. Until we support an alien language or
people want emoticons as separators.

> Making it a string is more invasive than making it a widechar.

Does concatenating a string and a WideChar create a UnicodeString? Can
this become a problem?

Mattias