[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Sven Barth schrieb:
> Am 11.10.2011 11:35, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
>> Sven Barth schrieb:
>>
>>> Nevertheless Jonas' statement is correct, because (currently) String =
>>> AnsiString and thus they are the same (and both can currently use code
>>> pages).
>>
>> Really? This were absolutely incompatible with Delphi!
> 
> This is because - as you might have noticed - the current code is still 
> far from a good working condition. So it would be INSANE to change the 
> default string type as well in the same go.

+1

Thanks for the clarification :-)

> Also Free Pascal takes its 
> legacy heritage much more serious than Delphi. Thus I doubt (personal 
> opinion/observation) that the modes Delphi and ObjFPC will change their 
> default string type to UnicodeString at all.

Okay, I'll stop asking boring questions about the future strings in FPC, 
until the opinions have settled down.

DoDi