[fpc-devel] WideString vs UnicodeString / len in char vs byte / *nix vs windows

[Marco van de Voort]

Op 2019-04-25 om 17:37 schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
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>>> And apparently then on *nix, "widestring" is just an alias (to 
>>> unicodestring).
>>> So using the type with the name of "widestring" on *nix will compile 
>>> to a type that has length in chars?
>>>
>>> At least my test app, seems to imply this.
>> Correct. On non-Windows platforms WideString is always an alias to 
>> UnicodeString. The distinctive WideString type only exists on Windows 
>> platforms as it relies on Windows specific functionality.
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> This is only about generated debug information, I suppose ?

I see you also picked up on this, I also picked it up  (on mantis) and 
ran some tests and then filed https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=35444