Michael Schnell schrieb:
I just have been told that Embarcadero plans to do away with the stuff
fpc is just implementing in the "Unicode branch" and is on the verge to
change to a completely new String type that is
- UTF-16-only,
- Zero-Based, and
- immutable.
And thus completely incompatible with any "String" Type ever known in
Pascal.
They also make TObject reference counted...
So
- why do we discuss compatibility at all ?
- do we like this (rather complex and not at all "straight forward")
String type that much that it is viable to implement, debug and decently
document this library ?
UnicodeString has been introduced in D2009, i.e. we are a couple of
years behind with compatibility.
Once this has been implemented, we can spend some more years with
updating the RTL and LCL - or continue using UTF-8 instead of UTF-16.
When we can start implementing further changes, we should look whether
Delphi exists at all, at that time. I wouldn't hold my breath ;-)
DoDi
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