Re: Borcon India Nov 2003-Disappointment

From: Olivier Beltrami (obeltrami)
Date: 11/23/03 

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:04:14 +0100

> FWIW, Delphi for .NET is all Unicode.

Thanks to Microsoft whose apps and development tools have been Unicode
enabled for a long time.

> But also UTF-8 (which is supported
> in the Win32 VCL) can handle "foreign" char sets.

AFAIK you have to change you machine to Chinese to test a Delphi app with
Chinese chars, the same for Japanese, the same for Arabic, etc... That is
not really what I call supporting foreign char sets ... it's more relying on
Windows to provide a workaround (and a very inconvenient one at that).

Olivier

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Attention doomsayers
    ... I am very worried where Code Gear, and more importantly Delphi will be in 3 years. ... One, is to seed the market with low to zero costs (not sure CodeGear can afford to do this), The Turbos are a good idea and can aid with this introduction. ... start making deals with third party vendors to create plugins for their environments. ... MS apps are at the point with VS 2008, ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
  • Re: Attention doomsayers
    ... I am very worried where Code Gear, and more importantly Delphi will be in 3 years. ... One, is to seed the market with low to zero costs (not sure CodeGear can afford to do this), The Turbos are a good idea and can aid with this introduction. ... start making deals with third party vendors to create plugins for their environments. ... MS apps are at the point with VS 2008, ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
  • Re: Attention doomsayers
    ... That independence is one thing that Codegear can bring to ... Delphi will be in 3 years. ... The JBuilder team used to include plugins for Vignette, ... Windows GUI apps, IMHO, is a no go. ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
  • Re: Over 100 Microsoft MVPs Have Signed Online Petition - Give Us Back VB!!
    ... Microsoft tools are not cheap for lack of spending on them. ... > For the most demanding programmers, ... apps I know aren't thin data covers. ... >> FORTRAN code in any language, including Delphi. ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
  • Re: How would you steer Delphi if you were Nick?
    ... realistic - .NET applications are going to be developed using Visual ... Studio (new apps, at least). ... Delphi is an alternative, but since it is not made by MS, it is ... There is nothing to make the Object Pascal language especially desirable ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)