[Lazarus] Documentation update (CHM building, lazutils)

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Fri Dec 30 18:40:34 CET 2011


Sven Barth schrieb:
> On 30.12.2011 16:23, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>> Dunno, I also wonder when this (Unicode strings) change will be really
>>> finished :-(
>>
>> I don't know what that has to do with it. Current docs describe the 2.6
>> branch not the 2.7 branch which has unicodestrings. But these files are
>> already unmaintained from before the 2.6 branch existed, so I don't know
>> what they are for.
> 
> They are code page aware strings, not unicodestrings. :)
> 
> That are two different string types and the latter existed already in 
> 2.4 and maybe earlier ;)

I wonder how strings with different encoding will work together, without 
kind of Unicode strings - be UTF-8 or UTF-16.

I also wonder what's the benefit of using strings with different 
encodings together, when every other string operation will require a 
codepage translation...

DoDi





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