On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Michael Schnell <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO that would be just GREAT to allow for doing portable software. The RTL > and LCL interface should be OS ignorant for portability. In user code, the > user should be allowed to use the string encoding (and byte cont per > character), he finds the most convenient for his application. > > OTOH this of course does provide a decent set of problems including but not > limited to unnecessary conversions in certain cases.
See the request from Mattias : "Please test and tell what you find out." Michael Schnell and others, let's keep this thread in a more congrete level. You can start another philosophical thread about how strings should be in a perfect world. Juha -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
