2014-11-24 6:29 GMT-03:00 Michael Schnell <[email protected]>: > On 11/23/2014 07:52 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > >> >> Well, the first reports of how the unicode rtl would look like were >> pretty scary: Total break of the string part of millions of lines of >> code that people wrote with Lazarus since years. >> >> That is why I stopped recommending Lazarus to my colleagues who are > doing Delphi. > > They took a huge amount of pain to convert their software from Delphi one > byte strings to Delphi two bytes strings. Hence they will not be pleased to > be forced to convert back to one byte strings to be able to use Lazarus and > some time later convert to two byte strings again once Lazarus might be > forced to finally follow Delphi on that behalf. > > If the program does not explicitely assumesa specific encoding, i.e. use only String type and do not do low level string handling, there will be no need to change.
I did/do convert a lot of Delphi components and can assure that most will not need changes as is today Luiz
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