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

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Thu Sep 17 13:11:49 CEST 2009


On 17 Sep 2009, at 13:11, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> fpGUI Toolkit is in the same boat. Using UTF-8 inside AnsiStrings. And
> like Lazarus, fpGUI also has various UTF-8 friendly RTL String
> functions. It works relatively well, as long as the developer knows  
> that
> he/she must rather use the Unicode friend string functions and not the
> standard RTL ones.

Please, not again this discussion. I think we all know what everyone  
thinks about that, what the pitfalls are and this will eventually be  
solved by D2009-style unicode string support.


Jonas



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