[fpc-devel] Unicode support - for the 20th time... ;-)

[Michael Schnell]

>
> If you want to help, we need to implement the Delphi 2009 encoding 
> aware string type, both runtime support as well as the compiler support.
A previous discussion showed that this also breaks a lot of old code and 
is not really nice.

So a better concept seems to have a dedicated type for any possible 
Coding (ANSISTring <of course locale-depending>, UTF8String, 
UTF16String, maybe UCS2String, too) and let the user choose (e.g. by a 
"{$" compiler option) which one he want to be used for "String" and 
"WideString". This would allow for simple compiler magic to perform any 
necessary conversion (including assigning constants).

-Michael