On 11/20/08, Michael Schnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > UnicodeString (the type in FPC 2.3.1) is a UTF-16 > > type, > > > I was not aware that there is a type with this name. Why does it exist ? > WideString that is not Unicode does not make much sense.
I'm new to this, but as far as I understand, WideString is for backward compatibility on Windows olestr type. It's not reference counted. Whereas UnicodeString type is reference counted on all platforms. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
