[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Martin Schreiber]

On Wednesday 12 October 2011 14.17:57 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:


>For those unfamiliar with Firemonkey, would you mind explaining further.

Read here for example:
https://forums.embarcadero.com/forum.jspa?forumID=380
 
> As for you statement regarding "do we need Unicode support everywhere?"
> Well, with Delphi 2009's Unicode support, the Delphi language now
> supports Unicode too. Thus unit names, class names, property names,
> variable names etc can all contain Unicode text in there names. So yes,
> Unicode is required throughout the Object Pascal language, and FPC
> Compiler.

Is this desirable? What is the benefit of non ASCII Pascal identifiers at the 
expense of performance and simplicity?

Martin