On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Michael Schnell <mschn...@lumino.de> wrote: > On 11/28/2014 04:04 PM, Martin Schreiber wrote: >> Please forget the crap with "codepage aware ansistring", dynamic >> encoded string and what not... > IMHO, the reference counting "element-size and encoding-brand enabled" > (tm) data type is a really powerful concept. But unfortunately there is > no decent implementation done for that yet. As Graeme suggested in the > discussion in fpc-devel, the Embarcadero syntax designers provided a > really nice paradigm (even though I hate the misleading "ANSI" and > "CodePage" wording, which easily could be avoided), but the Embarcadero > code implementers messed it up. And fpc simply followed :-( .
"And fpc simply followed" That's what I really do not understand. If wants Delphi so, buy and use it! Well, the discussion came here... Marcos Douglas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
