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

[Sven Barth]

Am 13.10.2011 11:49, schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:45 AM,<michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be>  wrote:
>> Well, if we add such a beast, it won't be just for UTF-8.
>>
>> Lazarus happens to be UTF-8 centric, but that doesn't mean we should limit
>> the use of such a feature to UTF-8...
>
> An addendum to that: We also need the normal PChar. Changing PChar was
> *very* nasty.

Out of curiosity: how did you come to that conclusion? According to what 
I read in rtl/inc/systemh.inc "PChar" is still defined as an "^Char" and 
further down is also an alias "AnsiChar = Char", so "PChar" should still 
be and behave the same?!

Regards,
Sven