[Lazarus] Unicode branch

Florian Klämpfl florian at freepascal.org
Mon Jun 24 20:23:03 CEST 2013


Am 24.06.2013 16:59, schrieb Michael Schnell:
> I just have been told that Embarcadero plans to do away with the stuff
> fpc is just implementing in the "Unicode branch" and is on the verge to
> change to a completely new String type that is
>  - UTF-16-only,
>  - Zero-Based, and
>  - immutable.
> And thus completely incompatible with any "String" Type ever known in
> Pascal.
> 
> So
>  - why do we discuss compatibility at all ?

FPC is a community approach so compatibility is implemented by those
being interested in it.

>  - do we like this (rather complex and not at all "straight forward")
> String type that much that it is viable to implement, debug and decently
> document this library ?
> 
> -Michael
> 
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