[fpc-pascal] Unicode filenames

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> > 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.

Given that most polls I've seen indicate that most people still use D7,
I don't think we should be too eager to jump into the void ourselves...

Of course a decision will be forced on us anyway in the long run :-)

Michael.