On Friday 13 November 2009 13:26:29 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Michael Schnell wrote: > > Martin Schreiber wrote: > >> On Linux xlib and xft have utf-16 interfaces. > > > > What exactly are xlib and xft and why does MSE-GUI seemingly use those > > while LCL seemingly uses something else ? > > Martin answered this already. But just to be clear, xlib and xft have > both utf-8 and utf-16 interfaces. fpGUI uses the utf-8 interfaces, > whereas MSEgui uses the utf-16 interfaces. > Often strings are converted to UCS4 somewhere in the chain anyway so it doesn't matter. utf-16->UCS4 can be a little faster maybe.
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