On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 15:25:03 +0200 Bart <bartjun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/31/16, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote: > > >> 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. > > When you use UnicodeString everywhere and no AnsiString anywhere, then > the only confusion left is Endianess,or am I (as one of the Universes > idiots) oversimplifying here. No, you are right. If you somehow(TM) achieve to work only with UnicodeString you avoid the mess. The same if only use UTF-8 strings. Or if you only work in system codepage like in TP 3.0 times. The problem is that you often has to work with databases/files/libs/etc in other encodings. So there is always a little bit of mess. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
