Jonas Maebe wrote:
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Mon, 20 Aug 2012:
So could somebody make a definitive statement: for basic two-byte
Unicode handling, what types should be used?
unicodestring, because it is generally somewhat faster than widestring
on Windows. On non-Windows platforms, widestring=unicodestring in any case.
I've got a couple of terminal emulators using WideChar and WideString
for internal manipulation, what /should/ I be using? and where does it
leave things like Sorokin's regex unit, which similarly use WideChar
and WideString?
widechar = unicodechar on all platforms. On Windows, where widestring is
not the same as unicodestring, one can be converted to the other without
any dataloss. Again, you may get some minor speed penalty on Windows,
but it's unlikely you'll notice it.
Thanks Jonas, noted.
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