[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Sven Barth]

Am 11.10.2011 11:21, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
>> is that a new mode DelphiUnicode and a new modeswitch Unicodestrings
>> will be introduced which do exactly what Delphi 2009 has done: change
>> the default string to UnicodeString. But unlike Delphi this will be
>> possible on a per unit base. (That the RTL must be ready for something
>> like this is a different topic)
>
> Not entirely. As said default string and rtl are linked, and linked in both
> ways.  Forcing default string in dialect modes, makes it impossible to
> compile the same piece of code in two different encodings using two rtls.
>
> And that touches everything that inherits from the base classes that uses
> "string" in a virtual method (or maybe everything protected/public even)
> falls in that category.
>
> Stuffing it in dialect modes is a habit because it worked with the
> shortstring->ansistring transition, but in that time we also essentially
> changed RTL from TP-like to delphi-like, and never really had to write
> significant code that worked in both TP as delphi-like modes.

Right... I guess I lost the overview of the problematic parts a bit...

Regards,
Sven