[fpc-devel] Widestrings in win32

[Marco van de Voort]

> Op Sat, 16 Jun 2007, schreef Martin Schreiber:
> 
> > Hi,
> > It seems that CG plans to implement an non BSTR widestring type for win32:
> > http://groups.google.ch/group/borland.public.delphi.non-technical/msg/7caeced42f1934a4?hl=en&
>  
> > The introduced string handling for the "Unicode VCL" is equivalent to the 
> > string handling in MSEgui BTW.
> 
> Noted. As COM incompatibilty seems preferable over not working 
> widestrings, shall I disable the winlikewidestring in 2.1.5?

Not working? Why is widestring not working? Moreover this would rule out
getting Delphi (existing Delphi) compatible in the 2.2 series?