[fpc-devel] String and UnicodeString and UTF8String

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Sven Barth schrieb:

>> legacy code can be broken by (eventually) required changes to "set of
>> char", sizeof(char) and PChar, sizeof(string) as opposed to
>> Length(string), upper/lower conversion, and many more not so obvious
>> consequences.
> 
> I don't believe that PChar will be touched, because to much code that 
> interfaces with C code depends on that.

AFAIK Delphi did so, with PChar=PWideChar now. For external Ansi 
interfaces PAnsiChar has to be used.

Please note that the WinAPI headers are configurable for either Ansi or 
Unicode, changing TCHAR etc. as appropriate.

DoDi