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

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Sep 15 11:56:56 CEST 2009


In our previous episode, Florian Klaempfl said:
> > 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.

MSE has no D2009 tested code afaik.

As far as I know unicodestring support is not at D2009 level, since the
1-byte stuff and the format of  internals are still missing/different?



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