[fpc-devel] Encoded AnsiString

[Paul Ishenin]

30.12.2013 18:33, Michael Van Canneyt пишет:
>>
>> So how one can help at this stage:
>>
>> 1. Check related FPC tests and write new for the missing cases.
>> 2. Compare FPC and Delphi RTL classes which had beed adjusted in 
>> Delphi during the unicodestring move and check whether something 
>> minor can be added to FPC.
>>
>> All major changes like the new TStringList class based on 
>> UnicodeString should wait for 2.8 release.
>
> I don't think that this is a good idea, it means that e.g. 
> TStrings.SaveToFile() or TFileStream.Create() is still crippled. 
> Better bite the bullet. This is what I wanted to test in feb/march.

This will also mean that we will release 2.8 much later (looking at 
cpstr development speed probably few years later) because together with 
this implementation we need to solve ansi/unicode RTL problem (dotted 
unit names in RTL and packages).

Imo it is better to release all that huge changes we have in trunk as is 
(maybe together with resourcestring solution). Then with the following 
minor releases we improve dotted unit names support (like default 
namespaces) together with experiments for ansi/unicode RTL.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin