Maurizio Lotauro wrote: > > What you described is more or less what I expected with that kind of > changes in the compiler. I expected similar problems with the > introduction of 64 bit.
CG did a rather good job to make conversion of existing applications to Unicode as easy as possible. Beside the fact that the default string type now maps to an UTF-16 Unicode string both String and AnsiString are assignment compatible, the RTL converts the strings as needed. Though this is a strong feature it also means that any code that used strings as binary buffer, or assumed 1 byte = 1 char did no longer work :( And ICS assumed that rather frequently ;-) On the other side having a Unicode aware VCL and RTL will make it much easier to add charset conversion features and other real Unicode support to ICS. BTW: The SMTP client, compiled with Delphi 2009, can now send messages encoded in any Ansi code page including UTF-8 just by setting property CharSet to a MIME charset that maps to a Windows code page available in the system. From UTF-16 it's easy and unexpensive to convert to the charset you like :) -- Arno Garrels [TeamICS] http://www.overbyte.be/eng/overbyte/teamics.html -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
