[fpc-devel] FPC 2.3.1 seems a mixed mess with Unicode support

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009 12:56:08 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

>
> > Who says that? What is not supported?
>
> This I found myself:
> * Unicode+Variants... varUString type.
>
> By Google'ing for some D2009 unicode examples and searching the FPC
> source. Here I list a few that I found in under 5 minutes:
>
Graeme,
I think there is a misunderstanding. FPC UnicodeString type is identical to 
widestring on all platforms except Windows. On Windows widestring is actual a 
not reference counted OLE-string.
With widestrings and the automatically conversion to the system 8bit encoding 
by the widestringmanager FPC has all what is needed for transparent platform 
independent Unicode handling since years. Now that we have the fast reference 
counted widestring on Windows also, the last problem has been solved. ;-)

Martin