[fpc-pascal] Unicode filenames

[Marco van de Voort]

> Zitat von Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>:
> > > types?
> >
> > It will be released in August.
> 
> If they are bold enough for this big incompatibility, then maybe we must be
> braver too.

What, also stop supporting anything but Windows?

> > Both. (and afaik .NET already is), but they don't have an unix to keep
> > track of, so we can't simply follow them blindly.
> 
> True.
> I guess, FPC will support the new string type and create some compiler
> directives/flags to control the default string/char type, won't it?

No decision yet. It is not really easy.
 
> So FPC will be able compile the new Delphi code, although the code will run
> slower and there will conversion errors on non ansi characters.

No commitment to remain Delphi compat either. Until we 1) know exactly what
Delphi does, 2) if we can unify that with a workable multi platform vision.
 
As you said, it is delphi that breaks in a major way. Doesn't mean we'll
follow that.