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

[Martin Schreiber]

On Thursday 13 October 2011 13.56:50 Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Martin Schreiber said:
> > Suggestion: Let it be as it is in fixes_2_6, add support for Unicode
> > resource strings and invest power into development of Delphi like
> > packages for example.
> 
Or improved optimization or improved debugging or...

> That is already not an option anymore, with the newstr branch merged in.
> 
Ehm, SVN probably can revert? Otherwise I am sure Graeme will help to convert 
to git, do the reverting and convert back to SVN. ;-)

> And while that is an option for you, it doesn't satisfy anybody else. Not
> even the ones that want as close to D2009 compatibility as possible, since
> they also need the new ansistring type here and there.
> 
Hm, even Embarcadero can live without in Delphi XE2 for iOS development.

Martin