[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL for FPC

Marco van de Voort fpc at pascalprogramming.org
Fri Jan 6 21:09:23 CET 2023


On 6-1-2023 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.

It is named after Microsofts use of the word unicode. Which was 
originally UCS2,  but morphed into UTF16 in later versions.

The reason however is Embarcadero's adaptation of it in Delphi.

For the encoding advocacy, these discussions were already held in 
2009-2010. Let's not have them again.



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