[fpc-devel] Unicode resource strings

[Martin Schreiber]

Am 21.08.2012 09:32, schrieb Mattias Gaertner:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:56:46 +0200
> Florian Klämpfl<florian at freepascal.org>  wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> The current situation is:
>> - either somebody starts to implement support for unicodestring being
>> utf-8 (or whatever) on linux in a compatible way with the current
>> approach, then 2.8.0 will use this
>> - nobody works on it, then 2.8.0 comes with unicodestring=utf-16 always.
>
> IMO unicodestring should be the same on all platforms, because
> otherwise the character size switches per platform, which is hard to
> test and asking for trouble.
>
100% agreed.

Martin