On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How does FPC/Lazarus stand regarding this? I remember Felipe mention > > that it is possible to support Win9x, or maybe I didn't understand him > > correctly? > > Lazarus already supports unicode in Win9x using a "best effort" > approach since months. It's all explained in the wiki: > > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/LCL_Unicode_Support#Guidelines > > Nick answered with what can be considered a half true. Win9x do not > understand unicode, but you could convert the string before giving it > to it. Which leads us to consider that the real reason is that > codegear simply does not want to support win9x. Simple: They are a commercial company, and there is no money to be made in win95. Supporting win95 means more than just the unicode string, and holds back on the feature front. Michael. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
