[fpc-devel] Unicode resource strings

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 20/08/12 08:52, Sven Barth wrote:
>>
>> Just to avoid confusion: The reference counted 2-byte string type on all
>> platforms is UnicodeString, not WideString (the latter is not reference
>> counted on Windows platforms).
> 
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think WideString was reference 
> counted an all platforms "in the beginning" - like Martin mentioned. 
> Later it was changed, and the new UnicodeString become the "reference 
> counted on all platforms" type.

So could somebody make a definitive statement: for basic two-byte 
Unicode handling, what types should be used?

I've got a couple of terminal emulators using WideChar and WideString 
for internal manipulation, what /should/ I be using? and where does it 
leave things like Sorokin's regex unit, which similarly use WideChar and 
WideString?

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