[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Schnell schrieb:

> Is migrating to multiple string types (each denoting a certain encoding) 
> and migrating to cpstrnew (a single string type with dynamical encoding) 
> a contradiction or can it be consolidated ?
> 
> What is supposed to happen to the nasty legacy types called "String" and 
> "Char" in that case ?

"string" has been a generic type since long, also "char" (at least in 
Delphi). This would allow to map these to any decent type, as Delphi did 
in the move to Unicode.

DoDi