> Please check this discussion: > > http://community.freepascal.org:10000/bboards/message?message_id=172880&forum_id=24092 > > Short summary: > * Many places in the rtl use single character strings, i.e. ansistrings. > * To make them Unicode proof they need to be changed into wide strings. > * But this could break a lot, and add a lot of overhead. > > To be short, Juras B. wants to add a Unicode Win32 target, so in the > standard RTL things like Tlist etc. use ansistrings, while in the Unicode > RTL they use widestrings. > > IMHO this is indeed a good solution, but one with consequences. Could > somebody give his opinion?
IMHO the problem is that the principle of the target dependant dir structure is that there is an separation between OS and non-OS dependant code, allowing to reuse the OS independant code. However this doesn't work fully this way, since unicode internally also hits OS-independant code hard. IOW the separate target only solves the windows unit defaults. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
