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

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Tue Sep 15 15:07:48 CEST 2009


On 15 Sep 2009, at 14:54, Michael Schnell wrote:

> Martin Schreiber wrote:
>> On Windows widestring is actual a
>> not reference counted OLE-string.
>
> How can decent (and System independent) coding be done with not
> reference counting (variable length) strings ?

Ask Microsoft and Borland. Microsoft defined their OLE-string like  
that, and Borland defined Ansistring on Windows that way.


Jonas



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