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

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 13:34:11 CEST 2009


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK D2009-style solution is just a reference counted widestring type.

If that's what you mean then no, it doesn't solve anything for Lazarus.

On the other hand, a UTF8 string type and a compiler directive to set
string=UTF8String could be a solution.

-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho



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