[fpc-devel] Changing Windows API A routines in SysUtils to W in Windows NT

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> Note that this might sound useful now ansistring without codepage is still
> the default string, but if the default string type changes, this is not
> really useful.

You cannot change the default string type without killing the Ansi RTL
and destroy backwards compatibility.

> IOW it is a short term hack with a long time support burden IMHO.

I can maintain it. I have here the final solution to Lazarus problems
100 lines of code away, it is a trivial thing to maintain. As long as
the Ansi RTL exists, of course.

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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho