[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> One with unicode string, one with ansistring. They will have the same code,
>> but will be compiled twice, each time with a different compiler define to
>> decide which version it must be.
>
> Is this possible in UNIX? I can see that in Windows you can use the
> trick to use W versions which are identical except for the string type
> and drop Windows 9x support, but is this really possible for the UNIX
> syscalls? They expect UTF-8 not UTF-16 which is what UnicodeString
> uses.

And why would this not be possible ?

Michael.