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November 5, 2009

Call for Unicode Migration Stories (by Cary Jensen)

Cary Jensen is looking for contribution to a paper on Unicode Migration Stories he is writing for Embarcadero.

As he blogged on http://caryjensen.blogspot.com/2009/10/share-your-unicode-migration-story.html, my friend Cary Jensen is looking for experiences in migrating Delphi projects to Unicode. He is looking for "real-life stories from developers". 

The deadline for submitting ideas and material is November 27, but the sooner the better. You can email your contribution to Tim Del Chiaro at Tim.DelChiaro@embarcadero.com or submit them using the Get Published interface at the Embarcadero Developer Network (EDN). More details are in Cary's blog post. 

This would be a very nice way to help the community at large in learning from experience how to migrate applications to Delphi 2009 and 2010. The material will be edited and organized, so don't worry about writing perfect English or giving out many details, even a rough skeleton with code samples will probably do.

I migrated most of the programs quite smoothly, with some extra hassle in my web servers code. The piece of code I probably had to change more often was file reading and writing code, based on streams, like:

stream.Read (strData[1], length (strData));

Good that I could move to the new (in Delphi 2009) TTextReader and TTextWriter classes, which are also much nicer to use. Anyway, I'll look for more migration issues and send them to Cary. Hope you'll contribute as well, as this can really become a community-driven effort. 

PS. Meanwhile, my REST white paper (focused on Delphi 2010) is almost done and will become available in the coming days. Stay tuned as usual.

 





 

1 Comments

Call for Unicode Migration Stories by Cary Jensen 

We can't expect any representative stories though.  I 
don't imagine experiences that involve 3rd party 
components that are no longer supported and therefore 
for which Unicode conversion requires a D-I-Y 
approach, sometimes in complex low level routines.

Or stories of sitting around waiting for a promised 
update to a component for Unicode compatability but 
which takes longer than promised or expected.

And of course, it's far too early yet for people who 
THINK they've successfully migrated to Unicode to 
realise that in fact they haven't even BEGUN to 
address the changes needed in their code. All they've 
done is managed to compile without hints and warnings.

Bottom line is that Emborcaderoprise won't be 
publishing any stories that speak to the truth of 
Unicode migration, they'll just be looking for stories 
that portray it as a non-issue.
Comment by Jolyon Smith [] on November 5, 21:48


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