[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL

Micha Nelissen micha at neli.hopto.org
Wed Nov 16 12:14:51 CET 2005


Daniƫl Mantione wrote:
> To be short, Juras B. wants to add a Unicode Win32 target, so in the 
> standard RTL things like Tlist etc. use ansistrings, while in the Unicode 
> RTL they use widestrings.

Why not use ansistrings with UTF-8 ?

> IMHO this is indeed a good solution, but one with consequences. Could 
> somebody give his opinion?

You postpone a decision that no one wants to make. It is not a solution 
to anything. The RTL will have duplicate code. I don't like it.

Micha




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