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

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Sven Barth
> <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I think he ment that if such a feature is introduced it would be a natural
>> conclusion to define "string = unicodestring" on Windows and "string =
>> utf8string" for Unix in the RTL and the FCL
>
> ? I am totally lost as to what this has to do with my proposal. My
> proposal is to add a minimum facility to port UTF-8 based code which
> makes heavy use of the "string" keyword. It says nothing about which
> string the RTL should use.

In short, you want a directive to say

   "In this unit, 'string' means MyNiceStringType"

Which is in fact an extension of the current {$H} to a more general case ?

Michael.