[Lazarus] Unicode branch

[Michael Schnell]

On 06/12/2013 02:39 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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> Adding -dUNICODE on the fpc commandline is difficult ?
Not at all. A problem would arise, if fpc or Lazarus would define 
UNICODE in _a_different_ way than Delphi does, and thus simply doing " 
-dUNICODE" would be not allowed or not possible.
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> Anything is doable. Doesn't mean we should. In this case: I don't 
> think so.
> The scope of the UNICODE define is not "well defined".
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I agree. The problem is even deeper.

As I was told by my colleagues the implementation of the 
quasi-dynamically coded strings in Delphi is far from perfect (it seems 
to be at least decently usable as of XE2).

So I suppose (and hope) fpc and Lazarus will do significant enhancements 
to the concept, concerning usability and flexibility (we already 
discussed some of them here and in the fpc-dev group). Of course for m<y 
colleagues they would need to be fully compatible to Delphi, as they 
need to compile their projects on both systems without too much 
additional effort. (They claim to be 150 % busy anyway, and the Linux 
stuff is added on top of this.)

-Michael