[fpc-devel] FPC 2.3.1 seems a mixed mess with Unicode support

[Jonas Maebe]

On 15 Sep 2009, at 11:32, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> As far as I know FPC doesn't have Unicode support like Delphi 2009+  
> has.
> Yet, when I query a WideString property, the RTTI functions now return
> tkUString. tkUString is the Delphi Unicode string - but FPC doesn't
> support that yet? So why is it in FPC 2.3.1 (the next release  
> candidate)?

The reason is that a new string type called "unicodestring" was  
introduced, which is basically a reference-counted widestrings on all  
platforms (also on Windows, where widestring is an OLE-widestring  
rather than a reference-counted widestring). On all non-Windows  
platforms, widestring=unicodestring.

I guess that FPC should simply write tkWString also for this unicode  
string type, since that's effectively what it is. Florian?


Jonas