[Lazarus] Unicode branch

[Michael Schnell]

On 06/13/2013 11:51 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> The problem is not in the compiler. The problem is that IF your code 
> assumes that WideString=UnicodeString
> then you will need to differentiate the 2 cases.

I suppose you are correct. But if I understand correctly what my Delphi 
addicted colleagues state: Delphi-User use just "String" as their string 
type, as they never learned to be careful about the code. Delphi is 
assumed to be Windows only, and thus if a Unicode version of Delphi is 
used (i.e. "UNICODE" is set) "String" is Unicode with UTF16 coding and 
for non-Unicode Delphi (i.e. "UNICODE" is not set) "String" is 8 bit 
ANSI code in the local language variant. If anybody uses "Widestring" 
(not ref-counted in Delphi AFAIR) he should know what he does.

This is what Lazarus / fpc should not break (of course no problem to 
have the user select an appropriate mode in the project setting).

-Michael