[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
> > components under Lazarus/LCL ecosystem that would need such change. Also 
> > porting Delphi VCL components would be a lot harder.
> 
> IMO Lazarus (and FPC) should follow the Delphi way, with strictly 
> separate Unicode and pre-Unicode versions. Nobody can expect that new 
> VCL (Unicode) components can be back-ported to Ansi versions.

Please explain what you mean by "unicode" and what by "ansi" in your
statement. Without nuancing that, your statement is pretty much meaning
less.

And keep in mind that while porting Delphi code is an important factor in
FPC, but not the only reason.  Many people use FPC for serverside or middle
tier development.

It is that why the Delphi model of utf16 strings is not really constructive
on *nix.