[fpc-devel] Some questions and proposals about cpstring

[Michael Schnell]

On 10/12/2011 11:33 AM, Alex Shishkin wrote:
> ...
While I feel that something like this migh be a(nother) decent way to 
handle Unicode strings, obviously different decisions have been taken 
because

1) Pascal is supposed to be a strictly typed language. This asks for 
being able to use distinct types for different encoding.
2) Delphi compatibility.

-Michael