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

[Sven Barth]

Am 13.10.2011 11:57, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
>> 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 (and maybe "string
>> = ansistring" for DOS and OS/2). Thus those two libraries need to be
>> tested intensively that they can cope with that.
>
> No, worse even, both on both platforms. So win32-utf8 and win32-utf16, where
> the utf* designates the type of the default string type. And the same for
> unix.  Maybe win32-ansi too.

Ok... that you want multiple distributions per platform is clear now. 
But you would not oppose (in the case of having multiple distributions) 
a feature like Felipe suggested, do I understand that correctl?

> The default stringtype is set on compiler startup, but can be modified
> inside procedures with $H like behaviour.

You would go as far as allowing a change of "string" on a per-procedure 
base?

Regards,
Sven