[fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

[Martin Schreiber]

On Monday 24 December 2012 10:23:00 Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 24.12.2012 07:48 schrieb "Martin Schreiber" <mse00000 at gmail.com>:
> > On Sunday 23 December 2012 17:44:53 Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > > In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > > > > Do you know how RTTI will be encoded?
> > > >
> > > > I would guess short/ansistrings, since pascal identifiers must be a
> > > > subset of ASCII anyway.
> > >
> > > Not Delphi 2009+ btw, which allow UTF8 identifiers.
> >
> > What will FPC do?
>
> As I already wrote there are currently no plans to change that FPC supports
> only ASCII identifiers.

I don't think we can trust on that. I hoped that FPC will not use cpstrnew 
too. So if somebody implements non ASCII identifiers because he needs a 
second source Delphi compiler it will be merged because the addition does not 
break existing code. I assume utf-8 identifiers would not be very difficult 
to do in compiler.

Martin