[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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