Daniël Mantione napsal(a): > Hi, > > Please check this discussion: > > http://community.freepascal.org:10000/bboards/message?message_id=172880&forum_id=24092 > > Short summary: > * Many places in the rtl use single character strings, i.e. ansistrings. > * To make them Unicode proof they need to be changed into wide strings. > * But this could break a lot, and add a lot of overhead. > > To be short, Juras B. wants to add a Unicode Win32 target, so in the > standard RTL things like Tlist etc. use ansistrings, while in the Unicode > RTL they use widestrings. > > IMHO this is indeed a good solution, but one with consequences. Could > somebody give his opinion?
Big overhead (double maintenance efforts for all targets supporting this schisma). :-( I'd say it's better to successively identify the weak points and address these case by case. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
