On 01/11/2011 05:19 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
IMO a single encoding, i.e. UTF-8, can cover all cases.
Of course you are right here, but there are some things to be considered:
In Windows (and maybe elsewhere, too) a two-Byte API (e.g. UTF-16) needs
to be used, forcing lots of conversions when doing GUI applications.
_All_ beginners will use s[i] and expect to get a character without any
afterthought. They will be very disappointed when not using English if
they get bytes instead of characters. The count of the frustrated will
be much smaller (but >Zero) when doing Widestring/Widechar and they get
Words instead of Characters.
Eliminating the s[i] syntax would trash a lot of legacy code and the
decent replacement (finding the correct character and moving it into a
DWord in UCS4) is slow and still does not handle all the funny Unicode
character-combining stuff. But the count of frustrated beginners might
be further reduced.
-Michael
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