[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Sven Barth]

Am 12.10.2011 10:59, schrieb Martin Schreiber:
> On Wednesday 12 October 2011 09.50:33 Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>
>> Undecided. But I'm very strongly against utf16 default on unix. I don't do
>> much GUI on unix, and it would be insane to have a string type that is
>> totally different from all other string types that I touch.
>
> Do I understand it right that the constants, variables and properties in
> classes.pas and db.pas which currently have the type "string" will be utf-8 on
> Unix and utf-16 on Windows?

There is no final decision on this topic, so it's hard to say what is 
and what is not (the topic is not easy and we aren't far enough to even 
have a fully working implementation of the dynamic string type).

Regards,
Sven