On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:43:07 +0100, Florian Klaempfl wrote > Uberto Barbini wrote: > > >>>>What would be the correct solution? > >>> > >>>I am showing my ignorance of multi byte characater handling here, but > >>>I think it would be to write an escaped sequence as is currently done > >>>for wide strings. I don't think the current OutChars function is quite > >>>up to it, as utf8 characters can be 32 bits? > >> > >>As a bit of background information as to why some work may ve necessary, > >>the problem I had was with a copyright character in a string property, > >>which some version of Delphi had decided to write out as utf8. > > > > > > I think that the ultimate solution is to implement Unicode strings, I mean not > > escaped Unicode, and then convert utf-8 to unicode string. > > I'm not sure how Delphi manage that, Java has Unicode string. > > utf-8 is a unicode string. What do you mean with "not escaped" > Unicode? Memory wasting utf-32?
I'd see UCS2/UCS4 as not escaped Unicode. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
