Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Lee Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Won't that break Delphi compatibility in many places? Again, my apologies >> as I >> try to grasp the concepts here. > > Yes. Present and previous Delphi versions have no unicode support. > > We cannot have a full cross-platform unicode support and still be 100% > delphi compatible. > > If you attein to purely ascii software, we are still delphi > compatible. If you use other encodings, you will need to convert your > source code to utf-8, and as a bonus you win a consistent unicode > support. >
Thanks again for responde, Felipe. I'm going to have to do some more reading up on Unicode. Personally, I don't mind using utf-8, I just am still unsure as to what specific actions I need to take in order to be compliant. -- Warm Regards, Lee "When my company started out, we were really, really, really, really small. Now...we're just really small." _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
