[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Marcos Douglas B. Santos]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Tony Whyman via Lazarus
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
> On 14/08/17 14:11, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote:
>>
>> FPC and Lazarus claim they are cross-platform — this is a fact — and
>> because that, IMHO, both should be use in only one way in every
>> system, don't you think?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Marcos Douglas
>
> Precisely. But why this fixation on UTF-16/Unicode and not UTF8?

I have no fixation in any Unicode flavors...
My "problem" is because I use Windows, not Linux where UTF8 is the default.

> Lazarus is already a UTF8 environment.
>
> Much of the LCL assumes UTF8.
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> UTF8 is arguably a much more efficient way to store and transfer data
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> UTF-16/Unicode can only store 65,536 characters while the Unicode standard
> (that covers UTF8 as well) defines 136,755 characters.
>
> UTF-16/Unicode's main advantage seems to be for rapid indexing of large
> strings.
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> You made need UTF-16/Unicode support for accessing Microsoft APIs but apart
> from that, why is it being promoted as the universal standard?

I didn't propose that.
But take a look in other languages, see what they are using.


Best regards,
Marcos Douglas