In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > > > Yes. RTLString would be just an alias to UnicodeString in win32 and > > UTF8String in unixes > > Bad news for Michael. :-) We would have to have serious documentation on > all the string types supported by FPC - I'm loosing count! We would > also need a nice big table showing all the "alias" strings and what they > really mean on each platform.
A good place to start: http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/delphistringtypes.txt > If I sometimes compare Java's string handling and types to FPC's Object > Pascal implementation - I wonder if we as Object Pascal developers have > got nuts! :-) Java's string handling seems so simple, even with Unicode > (or not) support. Java is not portable. The VM hides the platform differences. Object Pascal interfaces directly and unfiltered/marshalled with the world. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
