[Lazarus] Unicode branch

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Tue Jun 25 13:38:25 CEST 2013


Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
> <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> They also make TObject reference counted...
> 
> lol! That's ridiculous ... they will just keep changing and changing?
> And expect people to rewrite their codebases every 4 years?

Yes, that's the only way to make people buy new Delphi versions.
In theory at least, in practice it may make people stop buying new 
versions at all.

DoDi





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