[fpc-devel] Unicode and UTF8String

[Michael Schnell]

> It simply needs no explicit support except what it has already. Mainly
> the rtl and the user program has to take care of it and we did this
> already in the rtl but the compiler required no fix in this regard so far.
>   
I do see your point !

But my point is that with the introduction of Unicode, compiler support 
for handling of these things is introduced (and the RTL and the LCL). I 
think this should result in making user-code largely unnecessary and not 
in requiring those programmer, that did not need multi-byte support for 
serving the users they want to deploy their software to, to finally 
start to introduce multi-byte handling in their user-program code.

IMHO, if ever possible, a new version of a program should make life for 
the majority of the actual users easier and avoid making life more 
complicated for those that not willingly decide that they need the 
complexity.

-Michael