[fpc-devel] String handling in trunk (was utf8 in 2.6.0)

[Jonas Maebe]

On 05 Jan 2013, at 12:53, Paul Ishenin wrote:

> ResourceStrings are stored as AnsiString type with 0 codepage (as I remember). Delphi now stores ResourceStrings as UnicodeString type. I think FPC will follow this in m_default_unicodestring modeswitch.

It would probably even be better to always do that. At least I don't see a downside, other than slightly larger binaries (and that's not an issue in this case as far as I'm concerned; maintaining two separate resourcestring systems/handlers is just not worth the trouble).


Jonas