[fpc-devel] TRegistry and Unicode

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, Bart wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 4:03 PM Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> Sorry to hear this.
>> That was certainly not my intention, on the contrary: I am glad to see that
>> someone takes the time to look at some of these bugs in earnest.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> From my perspective: the public API is all that matters.
>> There I would opt for overloads that accept unicodestring.
>
> I can work on that.

Great, thank you.

>
>> Probably because no-one in his right mind uses TRegIniFile ?
> +1
>
>
>> TRegIniFile is a component from Delphi 1 or 2, to facilitate the transfer
>> from ini -> registry which was relevant in 1995 or thereabouts.
>>
>> Maybe we should simply ditch it, or move it to a separate unit and mark it
>> deprecated.
>
> I agree.

To keep things simple: A unit reginifile ?

Michael.