[fpc-devel] Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Florian Klaempfl wrote:

> I've continued to work on support of an unicodestring type in fpc. It's
> currently in an svn branch at:
> http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/unicodestring
> and will be merged later to trunk. The unicodestring type is a ref. counted
> utf-16 string. On non-windows, widestring is mapped to this type. If you're
> interested in unicode support please test, give feedback here and submit
> fixes.
> 
> An existing working copy of trunk can be switched to this branch by
> cd fpc
> svn switch http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/unicodestring
> and back with
> svn switch http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk

What happened to the idea of dynamical encoding ? And why utf-16 ? Unix
uses UTF-8 by default, which means that a conversion must be done each
time you interface to the OS ? 

Can you explain some of the decisions ?

Michael.