Michael Schnell schrieb:
On 09/14/2011 11:05 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
First and for all. Backwards compat dropping is not going to happen.
It already has and supposedly can't be avoided. Take a look of what
Lazarus was forced to make out of the identity of ANSIString and
UTF8String seemingly forced by FPC. e.g.:
Old programs assuming local ANSI 8 bit code retrieved from LCL GUI
components, compiled with the new version don't work (e.g. if doing
myChar := myString[3]; )
How many bytes must a char have, when it shall allow to store any
(logical) character? Unicode users have no use for an char type, instead
they have to use substrings for every logical character. A Unicode BMP
user could be happy with a 2-byte char, of course, at his own (low) risk.
DoDi
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