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

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:21:54 Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:07:48 Jonas Maebe wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Delphi widestrings on Windows, Kylix widestrings on Linux and Delphi/Kylix
> ansistrings are reference counted.
>
Hmm, this is misleading, again:

Delphi widestrings on Windows are not reference counted, Kylix widestrings on 
Linux and Delphi/Kylix ansistrings are reference counted.

Martin