On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 5:59 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > 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.
Ok, thank you for these informations. best regards, Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
