[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[cobines]

2011/9/16 Luiz Americo Pereira Camara <luizmed at oi.com.br>:
> Lazarus can continue to use UTF-8.
>
> Just there will be an implicit conversion when using those functions. The
> overhead is minimum.

Currently UTF8String is just an alias for AnsiString, i.e., the
implicit conversion UTF8String -> WideString does ansi -> utf-16
conversion.

Will UTF8String be a separate type recognizable by the compiler and
UTF8String -> WideString will do utf8 -> utf-16 conversion?

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