On 2017-05-03 01:21, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote: > Sorry about that. I stopped using Delphi at version 7, that uses ANSI. > I thought that Delphi nowadays was using UTF16.
They (Delphi) loves to follow Microsoft. Files are stored in UTF-8 (this is the norm), but they use UTF-16 internally. Lazarus stores files in UTF-8 and uses UTF-8 internally. Some background info ==================== UTF-16 was the first encoding implementation for Unicode - at a time when they thought 2-bytes will be big enough for everything. They were wrong. So then they invented UTF-8 to solve the problem. But by that time Microsoft already standardised on UTF-16, so Delphi followed suite. Linux, FreeBSD etc saw the light and used UTF-8 instead. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
