Marco van de Voort wrote: > While I think it would be best to use native encoding on all platforms as > much as possible, that is an opinion. However not using native encoding for > general processing is nuts. So we need the UTF8 type anyway. >
Of course that is true. So IMHO (at least) theses encoding types should be supported: - RawDWordString - RawWordString (handled like good old WideStrings ?(*) ) - RawByteString (handled like good old Strings ?(*) ) - ANSI 8 Bit code page xxxx (*) - UTF-8 - UTF-16 - 32 Bit Unicode (is this the same as RawDWordString, or is support for Surrogate pairs and such necessary ?) (*) what about comparing "if str1=str2 then..." regarding case sensitivity ? What about the appropriate character types ? (e.g. "char1 := String[1]") I suppose there should be - ANSICHAR: 8 Bits Type (for ANSI 8 Bit Strings) and - UnicodeChar: 32 Bit Type (for all Unicode encoded strings) Supporting automatic conversion (if possible). The "Raw" Strings should output Byte, Word and DWORD appropriately. -Michael _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
