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

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Martin Schreiber said:
> > 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.

It was presented on the XE2 introductionary presentation (of my reseller) as
an unfinished preview that was pretty much unworkable.

So that is not something that I take as metric for FPC development
direction.