From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 21 11:32:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kweetal.tue.nl (kweetal.tue.nl [131.155.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAD737B718 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:32:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Marcov@stack.nl) Received: from hermes.tue.nl (hermes.tue.nl [131.155.2.46]) by kweetal.tue.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f2LJ13w09295 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:01:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from tilly (n164.dial.tue.nl [131.155.209.163]) by hermes.tue.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 37A822E802 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:00:42 +0100 (CET) From: "Marco van de Voort" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:51:49 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Opinion asked: unicode encoding X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <20010321190042.37A822E802@hermes.tue.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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