[fpc-devel] Russian locale information not compatible with FPC locale variables

[Marco van de Voort]

> <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org> wrote:
> > As a workaround, it can be converted into a normal breaking space. There is
> > no proper solution, MBCS requires it to be a string rather than a char, but
> > compatibility requires it to be a char. Which means you are limited to SBCS
> > compatible thousand separators.
> 
> This is what the Russian user had to revert to, using a normal $20
> (space) character.  But seeing that Delphi is now going to be fully
> Unicode compliant, surely we need to attend to these issues as well in
> FPC - being fully Unicode compliant.

And just like Delphi, I think it is better to wait to a major version with
proper unicode string support, and do it (mostly) right in one go, instead
of little ad-hoc changes to support workarounds.