[Lazarus] non Unicodode application

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

I suppose a more clear question would be...

is it possible for now and the foreseeable future to have FPC (3.0+, not
just 2.x) make the "string" type (not rawbytestring or anything else)
behave as it was behaving always since the beginning of time without any
source code changes but (say) via some compiler argument?

I suppose it is worth to have something like this avoid breaking code that
exists out there (some might consider it as already broken, but for many if
it works - especially if it worked for years - it isn't broken and IMO that
is a valid stance to take).


On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Juha Manninen <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de>
> wrote:
> > Any automatic type conversion would kill the application.
> > [...]
> > will this be possible with future versions of Lazarus ,as well ?
>
> I guess you mean automatic encoding conversion for strings. (?)
> The automatic conversion is NOT a feature of Lazarus. It is a feature
> of FPC 3.0+.
> If you don't want it then you can continue using FPC 2.6.4. It is a
> valid choice in some cases, thus Lazarus will support FPC 2.6.4 for
> some time to come.
>
> Juha
>
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