On 2021-03-09 01:01, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 08/03/2021 2:49 pm, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
In that sense, unicode conversion support is something optional and so
we
require you to enable it explicitly, since enabling it has some
drawbacks:
Surely if you explicitly use the UnicodeString type, the compiler
should
know you are using UTF-16 (the default encoding of said type), so why
not
include the required units implicitly. It doesn't make sense otherwise.
UnicodeString may be used in a program simply because the included unit
has it used in its interface. That may be the case even if there's no
use of characters outside of US ASCII at all.
Tomas
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