[Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

[Sven Barth]

Am 28.02.2012 14:36, schrieb Michael Schnell:
> On 02/28/2012 02:24 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
>> This might be, but this shows that we do not need to extend the
>> compiler with yet another managed type when all we need is already
>> available.
>
> Of course you are quite right, but before the Unicode transition this
> was available out of the box as "String" and used in multiple projects,
> but after the Unicode this is not so sure.
 >
> ANSIString supposedly still can be used, but to me the name "String"
> _sounded_ as if no encoding is necessary to be taken into account, and
> thus simply storing Bytes is not a bad idea, while ANSIString sounds as
> if the encoding has to be ANSI and this is essential for the internal
> proceedings. I do know that the contrary is true: "ANSISting" can
> happily be used for everything while in Delphi XE "String" imposes one
> of several encoding schemes. To me this naming is extremely ambiguous.

Before Delphi 2009 you might have been right, but with that version 
Embarcadero did a cut and we now need to adapt and live with that. Also 
String in Delphi 2009+ is a UnicodeString, so it has only one encoding.

And with the way I described we can at least provide a type that handles 
similar to good old AnsiString, but will continue to work even if String 
should be changed to UnicodeString in the future.

Regards,
Sven