[fpc-devel] Unicode conversion routines

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said:
> > Of course if OS provides functions, use them! they should be properly
> > implemented and will be even faster without memory serious impact, but
> > I'm quite sure that not all functions will be provided by all OSs.
> > Maybe a small subset should be available for platforms that do not
> > provide native support like DOS and a WideString or UnicodeString is
> > available, maybe as a separate unit to be linked in only if needed.
> 
> Well, if anybody volounteers, something similiar to cwstrings for unix
> could be done :)

Worse, the Dos users are the worst with respect to binary size syndrome.