[Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Sun Dec 29 16:35:39 CET 2013


Florian Klämpfl schrieb:

> Well, in this case twenty years teached me a lesson so I can make a
> clear statement. When I started FPC I had a lot of ideas how I could do
> things differently and how it could help my chess program initially
> written in TP. However, nobody shared those ideas, well, they had their
> own.
[...]
> For strings, I proposed, the first time ~2000 I think, to introduce
> basically an opaque string type which can store any encoding, people
> complained, this will be too slow (true), incompatible with old code
> (true), incompatible with delphi (true). So it never happended. This
> list can be continued endlessly. Lesson learned.

Perhaps the Delphi developers have a look at FPC discussions and 
innovations, and add useful features to Delphi?

DoDi





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