[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

On 16/9/2011 02:36, cobines wrote:
> 2011/9/16 Luiz Americo Pereira Camara<luizmed at oi.com.br>:
>> Lazarus can continue to use UTF-8.
>>
>> Just there will be an implicit conversion when using those functions. The
>> overhead is minimum.
> Currently UTF8String is just an alias for AnsiString, i.e., the
> implicit conversion UTF8String ->  WideString does ansi ->  utf-16
> conversion.
>
> Will UTF8String be a separate type recognizable by the compiler and
> UTF8String ->  WideString will do utf8 ->  utf-16 conversion?

AFAIK, yes

Luiz