[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL for FPC

[Jonas Maebe]

On 06/01/2023 20:36, Adriaan van Os via fpc-devel wrote:
> 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.

There will be two RTLs: the current one (which supports any single-byte 
code page, including utf-8), and a unicode/utf-16 one for compatibility 
with recent Delphi versions.


Jonas