[fpc-pascal] working witg UCS4Char

[Tomas Hajny]

On Fri, November 9, 2012 17:01, ik wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>
> wrote:
>> On 09 Nov 2012, at 16:06, ik wrote:
>>
>> And if I do it without the hash, then it's just a number
>>
>>
>> UCS4Char is in fact just a number, and UCS4String is just a dynamic
>> array of
>> cardinal. UCS4 is not implemented as a complete string type in FPC (or
>> Delphi, for that matter).
>
> Cardinal is a bit problematic type, you mean longword. :)

Why do you see cardinal as a "problematic type"? At least for FPC it is a
simple alias to longword (and it has actually existed even before longword
in FPC).

Tomas