On Tuesday 01 July 2008 18.32:30 Mattias Gärtner wrote: > > > > In this routines length(widestring), widestring[index], pwidechar^, > > pwidechar[index], pwidechar + offset, pwidechar - pwidechar and > > inc(pwidechar)/dec(pwidechar) are used often. This can't be done with > > utf-8 strings. > > Ehm, do you know, that UTF-8 has the advantage, that many ascii functions > work without change? > For example ReplaceChar or searching a substring? > Sure, but for layout calculation and the like we need fast access to codepoints.
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