[fpc-devel] RTL and Unicode filenames operations.

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said:
> 
> I feel that the runtime performance overhead necessary for doing the RTL
> with dynamically encoded strings is not too big, provided the RTL itself
> does not force automatic conversions (e.g. by inappropriately encoded
> string constants) .

Daniel touches the main problem. The string type is compiletime, while the
standard encoding is runtime.