[fpc-devel] FPC 2.3.1 seems a mixed mess with Unicode support

[Thaddy]

Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:21:54 Martin Schreiber wrote:
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>> On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:07:48 Jonas Maebe wrote:
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>>> On 15 Sep 2009, at 14:54, Michael Schnell wrote:
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>>>> Martin Schreiber wrote:
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>>>>> On Windows widestring is actual a
>>>>> not reference counted OLE-string.
>>>>>           
>>>> How can decent (and System independent) coding be done with not
>>>> reference counting (variable length) strings ?
>>>>         
>>> Ask Microsoft and Borland. Microsoft defined their OLE-string like
>>> that, and Borland defined Ansistring on Windows that way.
>>>       
>> Delphi widestrings on Windows, Kylix widestrings on Linux and Delphi/Kylix
>> ansistrings are reference counted.
>>
>>     
> Hmm, this is misleading, again:
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> Delphi widestrings on Windows are not reference counted, Kylix widestrings on 
> Linux and Delphi/Kylix ansistrings are reference counted.
>
> Martin
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afaik widestrings are reference counted in Delphi. PWideChars not.