[Lazarus] Does Lazarus support a complete Unicode Component Library?

Marcos Douglas md at delfire.net
Thu Feb 17 11:30:11 CET 2011


On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess the most logical would be String(…) syntax - upgrading the
> String type to be encoding aware, similar to what was done when String
> was a shortstring and then became a longstring later. Making the String
> type encoding-aware would be a natural progression in the language. This
> functionality could maybe even be trigger by a new compiler directive,
> similar to what {$H+} does, but could be default enabled if compiler
> mode objfpc is used. This means FPC would be one-up to Delphi, where we
> can toggle the unicode functionality, and Delphi can't.

+1

Marcos Douglas




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