[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

On 16/9/2011 09:36, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara said:
>> Take the example of FileExists:
>>
>> The current LCL implementation - the UTF8 ->  UTF16 conversion is done
>> with the need of auxiliary code:
> All the routines you name (fileexists, filegetattr etc) will become
> rawbytestring and accept both utf8 and utf16, and then only in the
> implementation figure out if conversion is necessary. (to the encoding of
> the OS)
>

Better.

> And they will accept both those encodings in both RTLs. The different RTLs
> are more for the classes hierarchy.
>

OK.

Much of this discussion is because of lack of understanding of the fpc 
core / proposition.

It would be good add the current plan to 
http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_Unicode_support even if is a draft

Luiz