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

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> Because using utf-16 on linux is very unnatural, same for utf-8 on
> windows. Platforms like go32 even don't have any unicode. Coding
> platform independent but fast applications is really ugly having fixed
> types.

Well, then you mean that it requires conversion in some platforms
rather then it not being cross-platform.

What I am trying to say is that the new proposed systems will be
harder to use, trying to please everyone everywhere with a perceived
performance gain without any indication that this gain will actually
be significant in real world applications. It uses an exotic solution,
never tested before.

The speed difference in LCL-Qt apps and LCL-Gtk apps is negletible,
althougth we do string conversions when using Qt. Because the
manipulation of strings is usually not a bottleneck.

And the ansi routines will not be removed, they will be kept for those
really interrested in speed.

I for one prefer simplicity and easy of use to speed.

-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho