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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> > On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> > I don't see what is difficult about Florians proposition.
> > On the contrary, it is the simplest possible solution,
> > and quite elegant in my eyes.
> 
> To be honest, I flabbergasted that the two of you agreed on such a runtime
> construct. It goes IMHO against Pascal principles.

Why ? 
In your opinion, we must get rid of Array of Const, Variants as well,
as well as RTTI ? They all serve the same purpose.

No-one will be forced to use the new type, so...
 
> > For the LCL/fpGUI/MSEGui programmers, nothing changes,
> > you can even throw away your own conversion routines.
> > You need only a single call just prior to passing a string
> > to the OS/GUI system: ForceEncoding(). No ifdefs needed,
> > all is transparant.
> 
> That's one of the problems. Having to check and insert code for a Tiburon
> solution. (that simply will expect UTF-16). The least it should do is have a
> way to flag a routine (e.g. by directive/ Tiburon mode) to only accept UTF16
> and insert that call itself.

Let's first wait to see what Codegear comes up with, and then worry about
compatibility. In my opinion we'll have to write exactly 0 lines of code
for this compatibility, with the solution of Florian.

Michael.