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

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

Daniël Mantione wrote:
> Op Sat, 30 Aug 2008, schreef Marco van de Voort:
>
>> So then you can (hopefully) pretty much do
>>
>> {$ifdef unix} // in reality it is more complicated than ifdef unix, 
>> but for
>> now..
>> TNativeString = type ansistring (CP_UTF8);
>> {$else}
>> TNativeString = type TUnicodeString;
>> {$endif}
>>
>> And use TNativeString for encoding agnostic purposes.
>
> Well, really agnostic code should simply use "string" :)

Delphi is introducing  the RawByteString type, that skips the auto 
encoding conversion. I don't know where it fits in the upcoming unicode 
schema. Anyway there's an example how to use it: 
http://www.micro-isv.asia/2008/08/using-rawbytestring-effectively/

Luiz