[Lazarus] Unicode branch

[Sven Barth]

Am 13.06.2013 11:32, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Sven Barth wrote:
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>> Am 12.06.2013 17:36, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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>>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Marco van de Voort wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:55:24AM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote:
>>>>> On 06/10/2013 08:55 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>>>>>> Where is UNICODE defined ?
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>>>>> Isn't the define "UNICODE" a heritage from Delphi (> version xyz) ?
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>>>> Yes, and if you chose the explicit compatibility mode for that 
>>>> version,
>>>> $mode delphiunicode, it _is_ defined.
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>>> Now why on earth would we do that ? We don't define VERXYZ either in 
>>> mode delphi ??
>> The motivation was exactly the point that Delphi versions where 
>> String=UnicodeString define "Unicode" while former versions do not, 
>> so the definition of the UNICODE switch was linked to modeswitch 
>> unicodestrings (and thus to mode delphiunicode). This was also the 
>> reason why WinCE compilation got broken (it defines UNICODE by 
>> default which got undefined after mode ObjFPC was encountered) and I 
>> added the FPC_OS_UNICODE define.
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> All the more reason not to try to emulate Delphi defines.
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> Currently the following can be found: FPC_HAS_UNICODESTRING 
> FPC_WIDESTRING_EQUAL_UNICODESTRING FPC_UNICODESTRINGS UNICODE
FPC_HAS_UNICODESTRING can be removed, because that was needed for 
bootstrapping after the introduction of UnicodeString which was either 
in 2.2 or 2.4 series, so long gone already.

Regards,
Sven