On Mon, May 9, 2016 17:49, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2016-05-09 16:34, Sven Barth wrote: >> MS-DOS and Win16 where memory restrictions are much more likely to >> arise. > > Fair enough. Then use UTF-8 (instead of UTF-16) as the default (or only) > encoding for the RTL. UTF-8 memory usage is on-par with AnsiString (FPC > 2.6.4 and earlier) for MS-DOS and Win16 targets - or at least it should > be (the first 255 characters of UTF-8 are single byte encoded). . .
No, not quite - your statement does not apply for anything beyond the first 127 characters (the meaning of all characters starting with #128 depends on the selected codepage and thus encoded differently in UTF-8 in many cases). Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
