[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL for FPC

[Adriaan van Os]

Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote:

> - String = UnicodeString, Char=WideChar

UnicodeString ? ? I don't know what that is supposed to be. We have UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 and UTF-8 
Some marketing people, not understanding anything about computers, talk about "Unicode" to mean 
"UTF-16-treated-as-UCS-2".

For me, UTF-16 is the dumbest thing ever invented in computing. So I shiver at the thought of a 
"Unicode" RTL.

We really should use UTF-8, as most open source projects do.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os