[Lazarus] cwstring in arm-linux

[Martin Schreiber]

On Wednesday 19 October 2011 22.05:09 Vincent Snijders wrote:
> 2011/10/19 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:
> > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> >> On 10/19/11, Vincent Snijders <vincent.snijders at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I guess Felipe gave up waiting on a Unicode RTL for the time being and
> >>> goes for a full UTF8 pseudo RTL in LazUtils.
> >> 
> >> But this does not mean that LazUtils would not be useful then. My
> >> proposals to add UTF-8 routines to the RTL and even FCL were rejected,
> > 
> > Correction: Your proposals were not rejected.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> > No decision as to which character sets will be used in the basic RTL has
> > been taken. Any action you take now is therefor premature.
> > 
> > So it was suggested you would wait till things settle down till and the
> > final shape of things are more clear.
> 
> That is why I said: "gave up waiting"
> 
I think it would have been better if Lazarus had made an RTL optimized for 
Lazarus long time ago. Now the FPC team destroyed a stable product in favor of  
Delphi string compatibility. The introduction of multi-encoding strings is not 
a really good idea IMHO but more a marketing gag.
It seems that the Delphi architects are not absolutely happy with it either. 
Allan Bauer in:
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https://forums.codegear.com/message.jspa?messageID=400258#400258
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We have way, way too many different string types. It's confusing.
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There are more interesting statements in that thread, ex.:
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https://forums.codegear.com/message.jspa?messageID=399964#399964
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It is even possible that Delphi strings change again...

Martin