[fpc-pascal] Unicode file routines proposal

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday 01 July 2008 18.32:30 Mattias Gärtner wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Ehm, do you know, that UTF-8 has the advantage, that many ascii functions
> work without change?
> For example ReplaceChar or searching a substring?
>
Sure, but for layout calculation and the like we need fast access to 
codepoints.

Martin