cpstrnew branch (was Re: [fpc-devel] Freepascal 2.4.0rc1 released)

[Martin Schreiber]

On Monday 09 November 2009 15:36:06 Paul Ishenin wrote:
> Michael Schnell wrote:
> > Is this page
> >
> > http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_Unicode_support
> >
> > (saying "Upcoming Delphi release codenamed Tiburon will natively support
> > Unicode")
> >
> > still valid ?
> >   
> At least the branch link is valid :)
> 
[...]

Will there be a simple reference counted WideString on all platforms as the 
current FPC UnicodeString is?
WideString could be reference counted on all platforms and the current not 
reference counted Windows WideString could be renamed to OLEString in order 
applications which don't need different encodings in strings don't suffer 
from the performance and memory requirement penalty of the complicated 
multi-encoding-multi-char-size string.

Martin