Luiz Americo Pereira Camara schrieb:
Yes and as i said is a no-no (in my humble opinion) for Lazarus to change from String to UTF8String or LazString. There are tons of code / components under Lazarus/LCL ecosystem that would need such change. Also porting Delphi VCL components would be a lot harder.
IMO Lazarus (and FPC) should follow the Delphi way, with strictly separate Unicode and pre-Unicode versions. Nobody can expect that new VCL (Unicode) components can be back-ported to Ansi versions.
As long as the LCL is not fully implemented for D7 compatibility, adding post-D7 extensions is very questionable, at least. It may be fun for the core developers, but not for the users. Such attempts will end up in a *third* model, that is compatible with *neither* D7 nor any later Delphi version :-(
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