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

[Thaddy]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Thaddy said:
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>> afaik widestrings are reference counted in Delphi. PWideChars not.
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> Yes, but not by Delphi but by COM.
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Correct. Which means it's an opaque on windows platforms, but not for 
others. That's also the reason Kylix has a different behaveour at the 
deep end. Solve it at platform level and try to keep it an opaque, I 
suggest.