Pre Delphi 2008-9 Unicode Do's and Dont'sThis is a discussion on Pre Delphi 2008-9 Unicode Do's and Dont's within the Delphi forums in Programming Languages category; "Nick Hodges (Embarcadero)" <nick.hodges @ codegear.com> wrote > ... set of Char no longer works, > since Chars are now two bytes. I wonder why the old set's max size (2^8 bits, 32 bytes) has not grown in proportion to available memory. The old set was invented when available memory was about 640 KB. Now, available memory is easily 1 GB. The new set could have a max size of 2^16 bits, 8192 bytes in size. Note that 640 KB / 32 Bytes = 20,000 1 GB / 32 Bytes = 31,000,000 1 GB / 8192 Bytes = 122,000 Regards, ... | ||||||||
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08-07-2008, 11:19 AM
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 Re: Pre Delphi 2008-9 Unicode Do's and Dont's "Nick Hodges (Embarcadero)" <nick.hodges@codegear.com> wrote > ... set of Char no longer works, > since Chars are now two bytes. I wonder why the old set's max size (2^8 bits, 32 bytes) has not grown in proportion to available memory. The old set was invented when available memory was about 640 KB. Now, available memory is easily 1 GB. The new set could have a max size of 2^16 bits, 8192 bytes in size. Note that 640 KB / 32 Bytes = 20,000 1 GB / 32 Bytes = 31,000,000 1 GB / 8192 Bytes = 122,000 Regards, JohnH  |
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08-07-2008, 12:12 PM
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| Re: Pre Delphi 2008-9 Unicode Do's and Dont's Lars Fosdal wrote: > if UpperCase(string[i]) in ['F', 'X', 'E'] then ; Actually, that code will still compile and work, but it is recommended that you alter this to: if CharInSet(UpperCase(string[i] , ['F', 'X', 'E']) then begin msg := 'You gotta be Norwegian'; end; -- Nick Hodges Delphi Product Manager - Embarcadero http://blogs.codegear.com/nickhodges |
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