On 15 Sep 2009, at 11:32, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
As far as I know FPC doesn't have Unicode support like Delphi 2009+
has.
Yet, when I query a WideString property, the RTTI functions now return
tkUString. tkUString is the Delphi Unicode string - but FPC doesn't
support that yet? So why is it in FPC 2.3.1 (the next release
candidate)?
The reason is that a new string type called "unicodestring" was
introduced, which is basically a reference-counted widestrings on all
platforms (also on Windows, where widestring is an OLE-widestring
rather than a reference-counted widestring). On all non-Windows
platforms, widestring=unicodestring.
I guess that FPC should simply write tkWString also for this unicode
string type, since that's effectively what it is. Florian?
Jonas
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