[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Sven Barth]

Am 13.10.2011 04:30, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
> Martin Schreiber schrieb:
>
>>> Well, with Delphi 2009's Unicode support, the Delphi language now
>>> supports Unicode too. Thus unit names, class names, property names,
>>> variable names etc can all contain Unicode text in there names. So yes,
>>> Unicode is required throughout the Object Pascal language, and FPC
>>> Compiler.
>>
>> Is this desirable? What is the benefit of non ASCII Pascal identifiers
>> at the expense of performance and simplicity?
>
> Perhaps it's an attempt to better interface with .NET, Java or ObjectiveC?

I don't think so as AFAIK all three don't support unicode characters in 
identifiers.

Regards,
Sven