[fpc-devel] RTL and Unicode filenames operations.

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Mon, 1 Feb 2010, schreef Marco van de Voort:

> In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said:
>>> D2009/d2010 are still windows only.
>>>
>> Do you think there is any general problem in using D2009 strings with
>> dynamic encoding with Unix ? On the first view I don't see one.
>
> In general I prefer to use each platform using its native encoding.
>
> Some commercial unices are also using utf-16 afaik, since they haven't
> switched their TTY to UTF-8 yet. To be investigated.
>
> I lean towards RTLString=utf8string; and RTLString=unicodestring on the
> respective platforms, and then express the RTL in RTLString.

No, RTLString=ansistring on Linux and most Unix platforms. Unix is 
encoding agnostic so if you want to use the native string type you must 
simple use old fashioned ansistring.

Daniël