[Lazarus] Unicode branch

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 13 10:50:23 CEST 2013


Am 12.06.2013 17:36, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Marco van de Voort wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:55:24AM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote:
>>> On 06/10/2013 08:55 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>>>> Where is UNICODE defined ?
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>>> Isn't the define "UNICODE" a heritage from Delphi (> version xyz) ?
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>> Yes, and if you chose the explicit compatibility mode for that version,
>> $mode delphiunicode, it _is_ defined.
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> Now why on earth would we do that ? We don't define VERXYZ either in 
> mode delphi ??
The motivation was exactly the point that Delphi versions where 
String=UnicodeString define "Unicode" while former versions do not, so 
the definition of the UNICODE switch was linked to modeswitch 
unicodestrings (and thus to mode delphiunicode). This was also the 
reason why WinCE compilation got broken (it defines UNICODE by default 
which got undefined after mode ObjFPC was encountered) and I added the 
FPC_OS_UNICODE define.

Regards,
Sven




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