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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.

-- 
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
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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