[fpc-devel] bug report 20473: Please add a directive to define string=utf8string

[Michael Schnell]

On 10/13/2011 09:43 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
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> 1. Currently there is this huge work going on to get trunk to a 
> reasonable and usable shape again and until that is done (and maybe 
> RTL changes as well) it is (in my opinion (!) ) not reasonable to 
> think about changing the meaning of "string" at all.
+1

BTW.: is there a chance to compile Lazarus and Lazarus based projects 
using the trunk FPC any time soon ? This would help trying out new 
Strings provided there is a possibility to define some of the variables 
to be new strings in user code.

The last FPC version I installed was "Free Pascal Compiler version 2.7.1 
[2011/08/26] for i386". "/usr/bin/ppc383" points to 
"../lib/fpc/2.7.1/ppc386".

So, when installing a Unicode enabled it might be a good idea to do this 
to a separate subdirectory in usr/lib/fpc to be able to switch to and 
fro. Maybe it would be nice to provide this by changing the version ID.

-Michael