[fpc-devel] Unicode support (again)

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Wed, 12 Nov 2008, schreef Bernd Mueller:

>
>> Unicode support in FPC? 
>
> Sorry for jumping in. I am not so much interested in Unicode because I mostly 
> use shortstrings and ansistrings for performance reasons. But may be it is 
> worth to look how the gcc people have solved these issues.

They didn't. C does not support strings. For any string operation 
a C programmer calls a library function. For Unicode this can be a 
Win32 API call, but also a libc call, or an iconv call. It's an unportable 
mess.

Daniël