[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Schnell schrieb:
> 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]; )

How many bytes must a char have, when it shall allow to store any 
(logical) character? Unicode users have no use for an char type, instead 
they have to use substrings for every logical character. A Unicode BMP 
user could be happy with a 2-byte char, of course, at his own (low) risk.

DoDi