[fpc-devel] TRegistry and Unicode

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 19:14:41 +0100
Bart <bartjunk64 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 2:12 PM Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> > But inner workings can be made to use Unicode, because the
> > underlying APIs are using unicode: The *W registry calls on
> > windows, XML DOM on other systems.  
> 
> Well, my argument is that since we interface explicitely with a
> UnicodeString API, then why not expose that to the programmer?

Note: TRegistry uses only on Windows a UTF-16 API.
On non Windows systems it uses TXmlRegistry, which uses AnsiString and
internally uses TXMLDocument, which uses UnicodeString.

Perhaps it would be better to change TXmlRegistry to Unicodetring?

Mattias