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

[Jonas Maebe]

On 17 Sep 2009, at 13:34, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> 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.

It isn't. It is a string type whereby the string encoding is part of  
the string information (just like the reference count and length  
already are currently).

You can find more information here once CodeGear's server starts  
responding again: http://dn.codegear.com/article/images/38980/Delphi_and_Unicode.pdf


Jonas