On 10/13/2011 04:27 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
I don't see a speed penalty in using UTF-16. In contrast to UTF-8 it simplifies (and consequently speeds up) all string handling.
If doing code heavily doing GUI handling (such as the LCL in Lazarus) and the GUI's API is not UTF-16, all strings passing the API need to be converted. This will slow down things a lot.
So quite obviously projects like the LCL need to use a "variable" Type (either dynamic or static) throughout the complete code in some way.
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