Summary on Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicode file routines proposal

[Florian Klaempfl]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
>>
>>> I read most of the discussion and I think there is no way around a
>>> string type containing an encoding field. 
>> [cut]
>>
>>> I know this approach contains some hacks and requires some work but I
>>> think this is the only way to solve things for once and ever.
>> I think it is the most promising and extensible proposal,
>> so I'm all for it.
> 
> I read it shortly, and I still don't like it. I need more time to prepare a
> reponse though.

Keep in mind in your response, that we want also handle other formats
than utf-8 or utf-16 if needed :)