[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL for FPC

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2023, 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.

Seems my warning to prevent heart attacks was on its place but maybe not
entirely effective :-)

Relax, no-one will force you to use UTF16.

But there are people that do not have the luxury of choice, and we should
be kind to them too.

Michael.