[fpc-devel] Unicode and UTF8String

[Martin Friebe]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Florian Klaempfl
> <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>   
>>> I assume that the new variable encoding type would be used for all
>>> unicode routines, am I right?
>>>       
>> No, it will be RTLString which type depends on the OS.
>>     
>
> The more I think about it the more I like this solution. I think it's
> better then the previous idea of a string with encode information
> inside it.
>   
That I agree with. A string with encode information in it (I read that 
as a type-data field at runtime ) is not good (IMHO)

Best Regards
Martin.