[fpc-devel] Unicode resource strings

[Martin Schreiber]

On Monday 20 August 2012 09:52:47 Sven Barth wrote:
>
> Just to avoid confusion: The reference counted 2-byte string type on all
> platforms is UnicodeString, not WideString (the latter is not reference
> counted on Windows platforms).
>
WideString was reference counted on Windows when it was introduced in FPC. The 
FPC revision was 1.9.x IIRC. The first bug report I made in "wide" area is 
from 30.4.2004 and revision 1.9.3.
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=5084

Later it has been changed to OLE string on Windows because of Delphi 
compatibility.
http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel%40lists.freepascal.org/msg07520.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel%40lists.freepascal.org/msg03010.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel%40lists.freepascal.org/msg03018.html

Martin