Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:51:49 +0100 From: "Marco van de Voort" <Marcov@stack.nl> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Opinion asked: unicode encoding Message-ID: <20010321190042.37A822E802@hermes.tue.nl>
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Hi. The fpc core team is currently working on unicode support for Free Pascal, a pascal compiler that runs on FreeBSD/i386, and I would like to ask your opinion about what encoding to choose for the default multibyte string type. (Delphi's WideString), choices are UTF- 8 , -16 or UCS4. Not only because you might have an opinion on what is going to be the dominant encoding over time on FreeBSD (and *nix in general), but also because our core members are mainly in countries which are covered by cp850, and therefore have relatively little experience with multibyte characters and their pitfalls. Actually all three encodings and conversions will be implemented, but only one will get full support (with all string operations available), for the other two encodings, the compiler will insert automatic conversions for the routines not overloaded for the less important encodings. Any opinions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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