From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 21 12:41:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B2837B71C for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:41:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2LKcNh01400; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:38:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103212038.f2LKcNh01400@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Marco van de Voort" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinion asked: unicode encoding In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:51:49 +0100." <20010321190042.37A822E802@hermes.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:38:23 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message