[fpc-pascal] Setting string to be UnicodeString by default

Marcos Douglas md at delfire.net
Tue May 15 15:10:24 CEST 2012


On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:
>
>
> Mattias Gaertner wrote on Tue, 15 May 2012:
>
>> On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:43:19 +0200
>> Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:
>>
>>> It is not possible in FPC 2.6.x. Wth the svn trunk version, you can
>>> use {$modeswitch unicodestrings} (in combination with {$h+}), or even
>>> better {$mode delphiunicode} (which also enable other modeswitches
>>> that have been implemented for Delphi2009+ compatibility).
>>
>>
>> Is this new mode only a temporary experiment or will it stay?
>
>
> It will stay afaik, although the effects may still change to better match
> Delphi2009+ compatibility if required.

I would like to understand why Delphi compatibility is so important to
FPC and Lazarus.

Marcos Douglas



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