[fpc-devel] Trying to understand the wiki-Page "FPC Unicode support"

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Sven Barth schrieb:

> Just a little remark: please don't throw in WideString, which is a 
> completely different type and only there for easy compatibility with COM 
> and other Windows APIs.

I mentioned it for completness, and because (at least in Delphi) the 
elements of an UnicodeString are WideChar.

> Unlike UnicodeString this type is not reference 
> counted for example nor does it have the code page and element size 
> information that a Ansi-/UnicodeString has.

This implementation detail is independent from the common payload encoding.

> (In FPC WideString is the same as UnicodeString for all non-Windows 
> platforms)

sic!

DoDi