[Lazarus] Any chance of changing the LCL Unicode encoding to UTF-16?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 8/4/08, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

>  Regardless of that, if the lazarus/fpGUI devels want to make it to
>  Lazarus/fpGUI 1.0 still during this millennium, I would not recommend
>  switching encoding (again) yet. You must draw the line somewhere.

I'll be playing the WAIT game. :-)  In the mean time I'm starting to
prepare fpGUI as much as I can. TfpgString type must be used
everywhere instead of String. UTF8Pos(), UTF8xxx() functions need to
be renamed to encoding neutral names like fpgPos, fpgInsert etc...

At least that way fpGUI stays neutral in design. And whatever FPC
decides to make String, it should have 'relatively' minimal affect on
fpGUI and fpGUI based applications. Well, that's in theory of course!
;-)


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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