On 09/19/2011 06:35 PM, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote:
On 19/9/2011 09:47, Michael Schnell wrote:
I don't suppose Lazarus can work with a cpstrnew version of FPC at all.
Supposedly moving Lazarus to cpstrnew will be a lot of work.
Not at all. Since fpc will provide two rtl (UTF8 and UTF16) Lazarus
should work without much changes with the UTF8 RTL. Changing to a
UTF16 RTL (if desired) would in fact be harder, but also not much
after the transition to UTF8.
To be a decent New-String Unicode library, the LCL should use the
New-String Type everywhere (supposedly in the source using some
dedicated "LazarusString" Type that is an alias for the compiler's
New-String Type) and drop any use of old style strings wherever possible
(supposedly everywhere but at the lines directly interfacing the OS'es
API).
Seems like a huge task to me.
-Michael
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