[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL

[Marco van de Voort]

> Dani?l Mantione <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org> wrote:

> > > > In other words, you still need to duplicate an awfull lot of code.
> > > 
> > > That is the same for 8bit and widestring.
> > 
> > No, that is not true. There would be two rtls based on the same code.
> 
> Can you give some examples, what parts of the RTL should change for
> widestring?

All typecasts to OS parts, libraries and functions.
E.g. accessing mysql is now done with pchar(ansistring)