[fpc-devel] Unicode paths

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
>>> I guess the only way, as always, is to have two duplicate systems on
>>> windows.  One wide that is for unicode, (unicodestring paramstr and
>>> D2009 compatible tapplication), one for old legacy ansi apps. (getopts etc).
>
>> If argv/argc is known to be UTF8 encoded, then I see no problem with
>> keeping getopts ?
>
> Getopts is not utf8 but shortstring, so ACS on Windows. Or do you plan to
> redo it using utf8string or unicodestring?

I don't necessarily plan to do so, I was proposing it as a way out.

Michael.