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

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Op 2011-02-19 13:50, Sven Barth het geskryf:
> 
> When you're still working on that branch (you got it to compile again?)
> it might indeed be that you fullfill Florian's point of "those who
> implement it decide how it's done" (more or less).

I've come to realize that discussing a design is fruitless (99% of the
time) in the FPC realms. Simply implement it and see what happens -
after all, nobody else is working on Unicode support, so it's not like
there will be any code or design conflict. If nothing comes off it, oh
well, that wouldn't be a big surprise either, because pretty much
everything I suggested (with or without patches) get declined in the FPC
project. :-O


> and introduce a new mode Delphi2009 that tries to be compatible with

I don't use Delphi at all, so I really don't care what Delphi does or
doesn't do. I don't follow Delphi development. I think some programmers
can think for themselves - no need to just clone code of features from
another project. Unicode is nothing new, it's just Object Pascal that
has been very late to the game.

Introducing yet another compiler mode also doesn't seem like the way to
go. FPC is already complex enough. The String type simply needs to
evolve to Unicode support, just like it did from ShortString to
LongString. A natural evolution. This should probably be something
included in both ObjFPC and Delphi compiler modes, but again, I only
every work with ObjFPC mode.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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