On Tue, 10 May 2016, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 05/09/2016 09:34 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
While still missing in the documentation, you can already do that with
{$modeswitch unicodestrings}.
If this avoids the issues, Graeme found, why is this not enabled as default,
as well in the user code as in the RTL interface ?
Several reasons:
1. Backwards compatibility.
2. We'd need to check all code. Much of the code assumes char = 1 byte.
That includes all other code besides RTL: Database code, web code etc.
3. It increases memory use.
All of a sudden, all your programs will use lots more memory.
Maybe not important on a server, but it is e.g. in embedded.
4. For Delphi, the choice was clear: Windows is using UTF16, so all APIs are
better off using UT16. Under unix-like OSes, UTF8 is a better choice
IMHO.
There is no simple answer...
Michael.
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