Op Tue, 11 Nov 2008, schreef Michael Schnell:
Surely this is allowed and works correctly under D2009, otherwise I
really misunderstood Unicode support in D2009.
In D2009, "String" is WideString, and the VCL API is done with this
(Wide)String. So this of course works. With Lazarus things are more complex,
as they need to support a lot of environments for the LCL. Even small
embedded environments need to be taken into account, so generally using
WideString is not a good idea.
I feel that this is why FPC should be configurable to have "String" be either
of ANSIString, UTF8String or WideString, and WideString to be configurable to
be either of UTF16String or UCS2String, while of course all these types
always do exist with their proper names and conversion between them is
automatically done as needed.
There will have full compatibility with old code. It quite likely FPC will
have a Win32 platform where string=ansistring and a WinNT platform where
string=unicodestring. Other platforms will be decided on a case by case
basis, i.e. there is little point in having string=unicodestring on Dos.
Daniël
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