A string type which you don't know the encoding is very inconvenient, because you need to convert it to something else anytime you wish to do any routine which will require knowing the encoding.
How will Pos be implemented? And UpperCase? Any cross-platform string manipulation routine will sudenly become single-platform. Any one implementing a string routine will need to implement it several type, not to mention that no string routines currently exist for such new type. The more I think about it the more I am sure that a string type whose encoding we know nothing about is very inconvenient for developers. About UCS-2 this is absurd. We certainlly cannot have half the chinese characters ignored in the Free Pascal RTL. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
