[fpc-pascal] Unicode file routines proposal

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday 01 July 2008 13.13:19 Mattias Gärtner wrote:
> Zitat von Martin Schreiber <fpmse at bluewin.ch>:
> > On Tuesday 01 July 2008 12.19:26 Mattias Gärtner wrote:
> > > Zitat von Martin Schreiber <fpmse at bluewin.ch>:
> > > > I did it with utf-8 and UCS-2, beleave me, it was not negligible.
> > >
> > > Where is the code in msegui? (the code that was formerly UTF-8, not the
> > > old UTF-8 code)
> >
> > lib/common/kernel/msedrawtext.pas, mserichstring.pas, msestrings.pas.
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mseide-msegui
>
> Thanks. Can you be little bit more specific? I see a lot of functions. Most
> of them can treat UTF-8 as 8bit encoding. Unless you want to do something
> special.
>
In this routines length(widestring), widestring[index], pwidechar^, 
pwidechar[index], pwidechar + offset, pwidechar - pwidechar and 
inc(pwidechar)/dec(pwidechar) are used often. This can't be done with utf-8 
strings.

Martin