[fpc-devel] FPC 2.3.1 seems a mixed mess with Unicode support
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Tue Sep 15 14:13:06 CEST 2009
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> > I think there is a misunderstanding. FPC UnicodeString type is identical to
> > widestring on all platforms except Windows. On Windows widestring is actual a
> > not reference counted OLE-string.
>
> The problem as, that it's very different to Delphi. Bottom line: not
> Delphi compatible and very misleading.
I'm not entirely sure we'll ever be D2009 compatible in every way. It quite
radically breaks with the past.
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