[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Martin Schreiber schrieb:

>> 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?

Perhaps it's an attempt to better interface with .NET, Java or ObjectiveC?

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