[fpc-devel] Unicode support (again)

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Tue Nov 11 15:25:29 CET 2008


On 11 Nov 2008, at 15:20, Michael Schnell wrote:

>> IMO widestrings with precomposed characters, just like ansistrings,  
>> can fullfill the needs of a newcomer. That there exists decomposed  
>> characters, surrogates, and more, does not need to be explained in  
>> chapter 1 of a programming for beginners book.
> Yep, but with s: WideString the example does not work in unicode  
> aware Lazarus.

That is because FPC has no unicode string type yet (as must have been  
repeated about 20 times by now).


Jonas



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