Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Unicode and Lazarus

2008-11-21 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Mattias Gärtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the roadmap from LCL pov is: > - a RTL using unicode strings > - changing the string types in the lazarus code > - a fpc release with the unicode RTL >From what I've heard about the Unicode RTL fpc developers recomend

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Unicode and Lazarus

2008-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Michael Schnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Compiler support for a unicode string is not enough for the LCL. >> As long as base classes like TStrings uses ansistrings, the LCL must use a >> string type, that does no conversion. > > Of course you are right that t

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Unicode and Lazarus

2008-11-20 Thread Michael Schnell
Compiler support for a unicode string is not enough for the LCL. As long as base classes like TStrings uses ansistrings, the LCL must use a string type, that does no conversion. Of course you are right that the RTL needs to be made up accordingly. Maybe TStrings and friends are needed in mul

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Unicode and Lazarus

2008-11-20 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > if a real utf8string would be a solution for Lazarus (I am not saying > it is, but it could be), we need to have a directive to change the > default string into utf8string. To avoid a huge amount of code to need > to be suddenly changed.

[fpc-devel] Re: Unicode and Lazarus

2008-11-20 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
if a real utf8string would be a solution for Lazarus (I am not saying it is, but it could be), we need to have a directive to change the default string into utf8string. To avoid a huge amount of code to need to be suddenly changed. Then only "ansistring" needs to be changed. -- Felipe Monteiro de