In our previous episode, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho said: > > Following from a discussion on mac-pascal, I'd like to propose a > solution for Unicode support.
First and for all. Backwards compat dropping is not going to happen. If we were planning that, we had changed everything to something unicode years ago. > Function FileOpen (Const FileName : utf8string; Mode : Integer) : > THandle; overload; > Function FileOpen (Const FileName : unicodestring; Mode : Integer) : > THandle; overload; > and similarly for other places and everyone should be happy. This is not a solution. This is a temporary hack to alieve some perceived Lazarus pain, and doesn't fix my main gripe of the manual conversions everywhere. It is is a hack for 0.01% of the unicode problem. IMHO the objective should be to mimize manual conversions (and with that the fact that generic code becomes encoding specific). _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel