[fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2017-05-24 um 14:02 schrieb wkitty42 at windstream.net:
 > On 05/24/2017 12:54 AM, Ralf Quint wrote:
 >> Well, the problem is that you can't use those handy Pascal strings that
 >> much anymore these days. Ever since you need to use UTF8 to properly
 >> represent textual context, this all has become one hell of a mess,
 >> pretty leveling the playing field when it comes to handling such strings
 >> with (Free)Pascalor C...
 >
 > quite true, my friend... quite true :)

I disagree!
You still know the byte(!) length of UTF-8 strings
and in many cases you don't need anything more.

If I search for the existence of an ASCII character
I can still iterate my string in a for loop:

for i := low(MyString) to high(MyString) do
    begin
    case MyString[i] of
       '!' : do_something;
       'a','A' : do_something_else;
       end; // of case
    end;

Works perfectly on UTF-8 strings.

And if it's coming to the number of glyphs in a string you will
have a hard time anyway because of diacrytics etc.

But I very seldom need the exact number of displayed glyphs.
And for these cases there are powerfull functions available in Free Pascal
to handle them.