[Lazarus] UTF8 RTL for Windows

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Mon Nov 24 15:15:00 CET 2014


On 11/24/2014 02:50 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>
>> code, the user should be allowed to use the string encoding (and byte 
>> cont per character), he finds the most convenient for his application.
>
> I'm not sure what exactly you mean here.
Here I menat that for a *new project* the user might be willing to 
choose e.g. either UTF-16 (sometimes easier to use) or utf-8 (sometimes 
faster and less memory overhead) for his own code, while the RTL might 
be done specifically in favor of the OS.

-Michael




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