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

[Florian Klaempfl]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I reviewing the various errors that I am experiencing with tiOPF and FPC
> 2.3.1. The last count was 130+ errors! Considering that there was under
> 10 errors with FPC 2.2.5 and tiOPF, it seems a lot in FPC has changed.

You should have tested with the unicode string branch one year ago ;)

> 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?

Who says that? What is not supported? Which issue report? FPC 2.3.1
claims to support the UnicodeString type fully and it can be that bad
because e.g. MSE is using it afaik.