[fpc-devel] Unicode resource strings

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 20/08/12 10:22, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2012 11:10:27 Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> I'm starting to believe the hard break is the only serious option.
>
> My opinion: Do what you want with RTL and FCL but optimize the compiler so it
> is possible to build optimal frameworks for different requirements.

+1

Get the compiler to decently support Unicode. At least the public can 
then build on that however they want. The FPC RTL can then later be 
mangled to be a delphi clone - or leave it to other projects to 
implement there own RTL's.

At the moment the Delphi-compatibility arguments is holding FPC back in 
the stone ages. All the advantages of FPC is starting to fall away. 
Delphi hasn't done anything major in years (Embarcadero simply buy out 
other projects and launch it as their own in the next Delphi version - 
which is a disaster too). And with all this "delphi compatibility" 
arguments, the FPC project wants to be one step behind that. Crazy! Like 
Martin with MSEgui, I would rather push fpGUI & tiOPF forward by 
implementing my own "unicode rtl" or required functions/classes if I must.

The "delphi compatibility" is purely a myth too. FPC isn't compatible 
with a single Delphi version (except maybe the 10 year old Delphi 7). 
For any newer Delphi versions, it has bits of this, bits of that... I 
wouldn't call that "compatible".

So lets try and keep the "delphi compatibly" out of this discussion of 
the FPC Compiler and Unicode support.

Regards,
   - Graeme -

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