On 2017-05-05 10:41, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote: > I wonder what they do when you need to access the raw 8-bit file names,
OSX, iOS, Android and Linux all use UTF-8 as standard, so filename access is not going to be any problem. Windows is moving more and more towards UTF-16 everywhere, so that shouldn't be a problem either. > or work with large amount of 8-bit strings. Why would you want to? Unicode supports all languages, there simply is no need for other non-Unicode encodings any more. If it is memory usage you are worried about, convert your 8-bit strings as UTF-8 encoded text (most Western countries text will all use low memory then - compared to UTF-16 as an alternative). Java has only supported Unicode since its inception in 1995, and Java runs everywhere. It's never had a problem running on non-Unicode enabled platforms. 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
