In our previous episode, Juha Manninen said:
> What I have understood so far:
>
> WideString uses UTF16 encoding. It is managed by Windows and so is not
> reference counted by Delphi or FPC under Windows. However it is reference
> counted by FPC on other platforms.
> Then FPC has UnicodeString whi
Vincent Snijders kirjoitti perjantai 31 joulukuu 2010 14:09:25:
> 2010/12/31 Juha Manninen :
> > UTF-16 needs codepages, too.
>
> I don't think so. What would a code page be used for with UTF-16.
>
> UTF-16 itself is already an encoding, implictly stating one and only
> one code page, if it can b
In our previous episode, Juha Manninen said:
> > Widestring (refcounted 2-byte type) , it is the ansistring type (1-byte
> > type) that gets codepage support.
>
> UTF-16 needs codepages, too.
> I think only the 4-byte char type (is it UTF-32) would solve all encoding
> problems.
codepage<>encod
2010/12/31 Juha Manninen :
> UTF-16 needs codepages, too.
I don't think so. What would a code page be used for with UTF-16.
UTF-16 itself is already an encoding, implictly stating one and only
one code page, if it can be named a code page.
Vincent
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Marco van de Voort kirjoitti perjantai 31 joulukuu 2010 13:04:27:
> In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
> > Delphi's UnicodeString supports holding strings with arbitrary encodings
> > (not just UTF-16), along with transparent re-coding of strings when
> > assigning them to unicodestrings wh
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
>
> On 28 Dec 2010, at 11:22, Juha Manninen wrote:
>
> > What is the difference between the current FPC's UnicodeString and
> > Delphi's UnicodeString? I am confused with all these string types and
> > encodings.
>
> Delphi's UnicodeString supports hol
Jonas Maebe kirjoitti tiistai 28 joulukuu 2010 12:31:08:
> Delphi's UnicodeString supports holding strings with arbitrary encodings
> (not just UTF-16), along with transparent re-coding of strings when
> assigning them to unicodestrings whose codepage has been statically
> defined at compile time.
On 28 Dec 2010, at 11:22, Juha Manninen wrote:
> What is the difference between the current FPC's UnicodeString and Delphi's
> UnicodeString? I am confused with all these string types and encodings.
Delphi's UnicodeString supports holding strings with arbitrary encodings (not
just UTF-16), alon
