On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2016-04-04 12:06, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:1. Using UTF8 is a choice of lazarus. Other people may prefer UnicodeString. On Windows, UnicodeString is more 'natural' or 'native'.Based on Internet standards and most popular OSes (mobile devices included), UTF-8 is kind - so we all know Windows backed the wrong horse [encoding]. ;-) [...Graeme runs and hides...]
Well, in 2016, I still only use UTF-8, even on windows. It works without problems if you know what you're doing.
2. The release cycle of FPC is rather long, so updates will be available not as fast as the lazarus team needs them.That's a valid point. Though it could probably be added as quick as in FPC 3.0.2. It's simply two new units that need to be explicitly used by somebody to have any affect, so it will not break existing code otherwise [if not used].
They should at least be renamed, to avoid confusion. Other than that, I personally see no objections. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
