Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:38:23 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Marco van de Voort" <Marcov@stack.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinion asked: unicode encoding Message-ID: <200103212038.f2LKcNh01400@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:51:49 %2B0100." <20010321190042.37A822E802@hermes.tue.nl>
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> 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.
Read the NFSv4 specification (rfc3010) for a good discussion on why they
chose UTF-8. I suspect that if FreeBSD makes a decision, it will
probably go the same way.
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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