[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL for FPC

[Wagner Landgraf]

> 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.

That’s what it’s going to be, if I understood correctly.
“Unicode” string (UTF-16) will be an option in addition to UTF-8.