Marco van de Voort schrieb:
In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
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.
Please explain what you mean by "unicode" and what by "ansi" in your
statement. Without nuancing that, your statement is pretty much meaning
less.
AFAIR Delphi changed the string type to Unicode (UTF-16) in D2009, i.e.
D2007 was the last Ansi version.
And keep in mind that while porting Delphi code is an important factor in
FPC, but not the only reason. Many people use FPC for serverside or middle
tier development.
It is that why the Delphi model of utf16 strings is not really constructive
on *nix.
I understand that is annoying when the generic string encoding is ever
changed into UTF-16. What are the plans with FPC?
DoDi
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