[fpc-devel] Observer support in Delphi

[Sven Barth]

Am 25.10.2012 10:50, schrieb patspiper:
> On 25/10/12 09:50, Sven Barth wrote:
>>
>> Am 25.10.2012 01:55 schrieb "luiz americo pereira camara" 
>> <luizmed at oi.com.br <mailto:luizmed at oi.com.br>>:
>> > Regarding Delphi compatibility, currently fpc already lacks much 
>> features in areas like attributes, anounimous methods, generics, 
>> interfaces, unicode and some will never land at fpc.
>>
>> - attributes are being worked on
>> - for anonymous methods exists a branch with an initial 
>> implementation though this is currently on hiatus :(
>> - generics is being worked on (constraints are nearly finished, 
>> generic methods are planned next)
>> - what do you miss for interfaces?
>> - Unicode support is being worked on
>>
> Can you elaborate on unicode support? IIRC, there were many 
> discussions without any conclusion.

You are basically right with your "many discussions without any 
conclusions", but the code page aware string IS implemented and in a 
seperate branch the RTL is prepared to handle that (and UnicodeString) 
correctly. So that in the future at least from a technical point nothing 
would stop us from switching the default string type to UnicodeString 
(that it won't be that easy practically is a different topic...).

Regards,
Sven
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