On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:32:27 +0200
Bart <bartjun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/31/16, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote:
>[...]
> So, when my usecase for string constants with diacritics in real life
> most of the time is just captions for buttons/menu's etc., the extra
> overhead will not really be something to worry about I guess,and in
> this scenario adding {$codepage utf8} may be the wise thing to do: it
> eliminates all confusion about the intended encoding of the string
> constant.
Well, I'm not so sure about the "eliminates all confusion" as Rick Cook
said:
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying
to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning."
> So, my current intended approach for GUI applications will be:
> - declare all strings as just String
> - have stringconstants with unicode character all in one file and add
> {$codepage utf8) to that file, and then don't use -FcUTF8 anymore
> (which is what I'm doing ATM),
>
> That should be rather safe then I guess.
Yes.
If you avoid PChar(Literal), invalid UTF-8 and #0.
> Will all this mess go away if we would go the Delphi way
> (String=UnicodeString)?
> (I know *nix users are going to hate me now)
Which mess do you mean?
As long as you have to consider codepages, you can get a mess.
Mattias
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