Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > On 5/19/07, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Does FPC have UTF-8 versions of the Copy() and Length() functions? >> >> They don't exist. FPC has been designed to either use the system encoding >> (which can be utf8). In this case, the string routines from sysutils do >> what you want. The other option is to use widestrings; >> length(utf8decode(s)) will return the length of an utf-8 string. > > Sorry, I'm very new to Unicode support. Wouldn't it be useful to have > UTF-8 and UTF-16 (and all the other encodings) functions in FPC?
It's not that easy, for example upper/lower casing, comparing etc. of unicode requires usually external big tables which we don't want to pull into fpc. > For > example the Lazarus LCL (LCLProc unit) has loads of such functions. > > The Length function is easy to get around, but the Copy, Pos ,etc > functions are not. > > > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
