On Wed, November 11, 2009 09:58, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> >> The constant encoding the code page requires 2 bytes, > > Could those become enum values instead, which means you can store up to > 255 different code-page types in 1 byte. 255 should be sufficient to > cover all available code-page constants (I think). > > Or couldn't that maybe be reduced to 6 bits for code page enum values, > giving a total of 63 different values for code page types (still > sufficient I think). And then the remaining 2 bits for element size. So > total usage is still 1 byte. . .
I'm afraid that your assumption about the number of codepages is incorrect. The MIBENUM value defined in list at http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets goes up to 2059 at the moment. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
