Re: Unicode in Delphi: just deprecate WideString/WideChar

I believe there is a large group of Delphi developers who understand nothing about Unicode. I'm certainly one of them. The only reason I use WideString is when a particular API requires it or when using COM, /never/ for localization reasons.

I much agree, I was quite ignorant of Unicode until recently, even when doing localization I had assumed for years that when AnsiString wouldn't prove sufficient, merely using WideString could take care of it all.
Judging from the RTL code, Borland developpers were in a similar position.

Also for years China and internationalization (beyond western languages, ie. beyond ISO-8859-1) were minor issues, but with companies concentrating worldwide, we more and more find ourselves facing the "internationalization" issue, even when the app is going to be deployed primarily in Europe, there is a requirement for supporting Asian languages, should a new plant be built/bought/whatever there someday.

Eric
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