[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Michael Schnell]

On 09/14/2011 11:05 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> First and for all. Backwards compat dropping is not going to happen.

It already has and supposedly can't be avoided. Take a look of what 
Lazarus was forced to make out of the identity of ANSIString and 
UTF8String seemingly forced by FPC. e.g.:

Old programs assuming local ANSI 8 bit code retrieved from LCL GUI 
components, compiled with the new version don't work (e.g. if doing 
myChar := myString[3]; )

Doing My16BitString = 'my constant text containing umlauts as äöü'; 
provides an erroneous result.

-Michael