On Monday 30 June 2008 22.19:49 Luca Olivetti wrote: > En/na John Coppens ha escrit: > > This may have been discussed before - but should the encoding not be > > dependent on the locale? What would happen if I write a FPC program, > > if the internal routines are, eg., UTF-16, and my locale is set to > > en_US.UTF8? > > > > Anyway, I have the impression that most of Linux is utf-8 oriented by > > now. > > Well, yes, but that's the external representation. > I'd say to take a look at how python managed to integrate unicode support: > > http://www.google.com/search?domains=www.python.org&sitesearch=www.python.o >rg&sourceid=google-search&q=unicode&submit=search > They have a UTF-16/UCS-2 internal representation, same as MSEgui which works very well and is fast and handy BTW. What is missing is a reference counted widestring type on Windows. ;-)
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