On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com> wrote:On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:34 AM, <michael.vancann...@wisa.be> wrote:In short, you want a directive to say "In this unit, 'string' means MyNiceStringType" Which is in fact an extension of the current {$H} to a more general case ?yesActually I don't necessarely need a general case, just {$useutf8string} or whatever else only for utf-8 would be just as fine.
Well, if we add such a beast, it won't be just for UTF-8. Lazarus happens to be UTF-8 centric, but that doesn't mean we should limit the use of such a feature to UTF-8... Michael.
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