[fpc-devel] Unicode and Lazarus

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Thu, 20 Nov 2008, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:

> So, what kind of support could be implemented in Free Pascal to
> improve things for Lazarus and it´s users?
>
> Maybe a real UTF8String?

There will be a real UTF8string, i.e. ansistring with UTF-8 encoding as 
part of type information, this will help Lazarus users to get rid of the 
utf8encode/utf8decode.

On the other hand Lazarus may want to move to a "string depending on 
platform" too, to attract both Delphi < 2009 and Delphi >= 2009 users.

Daniël