Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Anticipating Unicode Delphi

For some time now the Delphi community has been waiting for Tiburon, the Delphi version that will support Unicode. It is announced to be released somewhere this year. Of course, you can expect companies like DevExpress to wait for that version to do any work on their components for Unicode support.

There is some news though, which you can read at http://blogs.codegear.com/nickhodges/2008/03/24/39041. Apparently things are going very smoothly and 'some technology partners' have had a look already. You can only expect DevExpress to be one of those.

We are waiting for Unicode support very eagerly I can tell you. Our engine is quite ready to do propery multi lingual support, but we couldn't implement it in a proper way due to the lack of user interface controls that support that. That all might change this year and I think the 2009 versions of Sevensteps products will have the multi lingual support that we designed many moons ago already...

If anything new comes along, I'll keep you posted.

Bye,
Bart

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