[fpc-devel]unicode

[Florian Klaempfl]

At 00:12 14.11.2002, you wrote:
>At 16:25 11-11-2002, you wrote:
>> > At 14:06 07.11.2002, you wrote:
>> > >Hi.
>> > >
>> > >Is it posible to make fpc to support unicode source (principle)?
>> >
>> > Of course it is, and it shouldn't be that hard.
>> >
>> > But would be the use of it?  The only thing I could
>> > imagine are comments or constant strings.
>> > But I guess people who need this use MBCS instead of unicode, no?
>> >
>> > Furthermore, the 1.1 compiler contains codepage support for the input
>> > source, so you can specify how constant characters are converted to
>> > unicode when doing a wide string conversion for a constant string. Of
>> > course, this is only useful for languages with <=256 characters,
>> > it doesn't help users with very large character sets. Furthermore, the
>> > current implementation doesn't support dynamic loading of code pages
>> > and only the common (for me common :) )
>> > code pages (850,437 and iso 8xxx-1) are compiled in.
>> >
>>Yes it is true. But i am interesting about support of other than basic latin
>>simbols in idetificators (a.e. variables) also and about problems related
>>with it (a.e. one of problems windows dlls do not support unicode
>>identificators of exported routines).
>
>The problem is the linker and assembler that only support normal ascii 
>symbols.

Are there any windows dll which use really chars > 127?