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

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Thu, 20 Nov 2008, schreef 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.

As I understand it, the incompatibility from Delphi 2009 comes from the 
fact that and char string by default has becomes 2 bytes, not by adding 
encoding information to the type.

> 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).

Isn't this the same??

Daniël