[Lazarus] Does Lazarus support a complete Unicode Component Library?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2 January 2011 21:33, Sven Barth wrote:
>
> Yes, UnicodeString (and WideString as well) is treated as UTF16 encoded
> string.
>
> The type name might come from Delphi compatibility (tada!).

And once again for someone as myself, not using Delphi, it is quite
ridiculous too see the errors the Free Pascal project makes (or should
that rather be the errors Delphi makes) in such cases/examples. Trying
to fool all developers into thinking that "unicode" [as in
UnicodeString type] only means UTF-16, because indecently that is what
Microsoft uses in its Windows OS. Free Pascal is a cross-platform
compiler but it seems Microsoft even dictates what Free Pascal must
do. A shame really (and a slap in the face for any developer working
on a non-Microsoft platform). UnicodeString should really mean any of
the possible unicode encoding types.

Maybe the code-page enabled string type (cpstrnew branch) will use
some more "sane" name for its string type, or redefine the standard
String type to mean a code page / encoding enabled string type instead
of String = AnsiString.


> And currently UTF8String is defined as AnsiString, so there is currently no
> difference

That's what I thought. So why did they [FPC team] actually bother to
create the UTF8String type then?


-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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