[fpc-devel] Widestrings in win32

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sat, 16 Jun 2007, schreef Florian Klaempfl:

> Dani=EBl Mantione schrieb:
> > =

> > Op Sat, 16 Jun 2007, schreef Martin Schreiber:
> > =

> >> On Saturday 16 June 2007 08.57, Dani=EBl Mantione wrote:
> >>> Op Sat, 16 Jun 2007, schreef Martin Schreiber:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> It seems that CG plans to implement an non BSTR widestring type for
> >>>> win32:
> >>>> http://groups.google.ch/group/borland.public.delphi.non-technical/ms=
g/7ca
> >>>> eced42f1934a4?hl=3Den&
> >>>>
> >>>> The introduced string handling for the "Unicode VCL" is equivalent t=
o the
> >>>> string handling in MSEgui BTW.
> >>> Noted. As COM incompatibilty seems preferable over not working
> >>> widestrings, shall I disable the winlikewidestring in 2.1.5?
> >>>
> >> I would appreciate very much. If you can do so, I could restart the te=
sting =

> >> and debugging  of FPC 2.2.
> > =

> > I made the change, could you please test for any problems, as we are =

> > really close to 2.2.0.
> =

> You're aware of the fact that this breaks a lot of code especially
> delphi compatible one? (Ole)Variants on windows are probably broken too.

Yes I am. This is an emergency measure; incompatible widestrings are =

preferable over broken widestrings, which totally blocks the usability of =

FPC 2.1+ for for Martin. I am fully aware of the consequences; all code =

which does something with OLE will not function.

Dani=EBl