Re: Danny Thorpe on Unicode and VCL

>
> Why in 2007 should Delphi default to ANSI vs UNICODE,
> the current standard since Windows 2000. I tried to
> find when it shipped, but I think it was in 1999. I
> think waiting 8 years to support the standard is long
> enough for us to wait.
>

Windows NT has been built on Unicode since its inception, circa 1990.

Standards based on market penetration are not made overnight. When
Windows 2000 (aka Windows NT 5.0) was released, Win98 was the defacto
platform to target. It wasn't until Windows XP that the NT platform
began to overtake the Win9x installed base.

-Danny

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