[Lazarus] Making sources compatible with Delphi (but Lazarus is priority)

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 5 May 2017 12:17:22 +0200
Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

>[...]
> Embarcadero realized they made a mistake when they disabled (yes, only 
> disabled not removed) 8-byte strings from NEXTGEN compilers. UTF8String 
> and RawByteString are back for all NEXTGEN compilers since 10.1. You can 
> use them in Linux Delphi as well.
> 
> http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/2016/05/system-bytestrings-for-10-1-berlin/

Wow. I guess that means FPC lost the title of
"compiler with most confusing string types".


Mattias