[fpc-announce]New entry in Free Pascal Contributed units. (Common utilities and compiler units)

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The following entry was added to the Free Pascal contributed units:

Name         : Common utilities and compiler units
Author       : Optima SC Inc.
Email        : cecodere at yahoo.ca
Homepage     : http://www.optimasc.com/products/utilities/
FTP site     : ftp://
Version      : 
Date         : 2004-06-20
Category     : Miscellaneous
Supported OS : ALL
Description  :
1) Generic common code for porting source on different pascal compilers. Currently supported compilers are Virtual Pascal, Delphi, Kylix, Free Pascal and Turbo Pascal. This includes objects, dos and strings units for Delphi. 

2) Generic unicode handling routines, defined as pascal strings (ucs2string, utf32string). Handling routines for these strings types as well as conversion to/from other string types are present.

3) Generic routines related to standards such as ISO 8601 date-time routines.

Full documentation is included.