[fpc-pascal] FPC vs Delphi's unicode string support questions

[Jonas Maebe]

On 18 Aug 2012, at 21:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Wasn't there lots of "votes" from many that string is UTF-8 encode
> under Linux, Unix, MacOSX, and UTF-16 under Windows?

The mode is called "delphiunicode" and in Delphi unicode versions, string = unicodestring. Maybe one day another mode or mode switch will be added that allows defining string to something else, but that's separate from adding support for the Delphi-with-string-is-unicodestring dialects.


Jonas