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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 18 August 2012 22:44, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:
>> The mode is called "delphiunicode" and in Delphi unicode versions, string = unicodestring.
>
> Not to get this thread into one of those heated unicode discussions
> again, but couldn't FPC at least do one better that Delphi. "Unicode"
> means a string in UTF-8 or UTF-16 or UTF-32 encoding - this is how the
> unicode standard is defined. Why must FPC fall into the same shit
> habit of Delphi where "unicode" means _only_ UTF-16 (which by
> definition is wrong!)

+1

> Maybe "UnicodeString" should be reserved for the true meaning. And for
> DelphiUnicode mode do something like String = DelphiString where
> DelphiString is a UTF-16 only string [or String =
> CodePageString(utf-16) or whatever you want to call it].

Have sense. This is a good idea.

> Anyway, just my 2¢ worth..... no need for any reply.

Now has 4¢.  =)

Marcos Douglas