[Lazarus] Unicode RTL

2023-07-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
Hello, I have just completed phase one of the "Unicode RTL" effort. The 'Unicode RTL' is an effort to be more Delphi compatible: - Char = Unicode Char and String = UnicodeString - Provide dotted filenames. Basically closer to the RTL as it exists in more recent versions of Delphi

Re: [Lazarus] [fpc-devel] Unicode RTL

2023-07-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Mon, 24 Jul 2023, Kirinn via fpc-devel wrote: Hi, A "unicode" RTL is of course great for targeting legacy Windows platforms, but for those of us on Linux, UTF-8 is the way. It is not only for legacy windows platforms. The target platform is secondary. What to use depends more on your