On 24-12-2012 12:01, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> On 22-12-2012 12:55, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >>> This is different from Delphi, where you don't have this choice: >>> String=Widestring. >> So how would the patch in e.g. >> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22095 >> fit in? > > It will need to be adapted if you want to avoid conversions. > > It already does lots of conversions anyway as soon as a unicode ODBC is > detected. > basically, it just switches to the unicode version and does all > conversions in the background...
Yes, of course. The thing is that you need to have some kind of architecture/plan of how unicode support is to be set up, which types are allowed etc if you want to adapt the code. That was what I was getting at. IIRC, the odbc patch was written as a pilot/learning by doing approach (AFAIR: we need national character support - for ANSI as well - for this, odbc requires the *w variants of the API calls for that, but that is incidental). Next up would be to see how the integration with the RTL could/should be done, but obviously this next step has not been taken. Well, anyway, I myself am not in a rush, but I think it may be in the interest of FPC to communicate clearly[1] when/if a decision has been reached as well as its status (e.g. we're working on implementation and this may still change depending on our experiences or we've been working on this for a while and these specific contributions are more than welcome). Updating that wiki article seems like a good way to keep this easily findable as well as updated as time goes by. This way, perhaps the amount/frequency of suggestions on implementing unicode support can be lessened and more energy can be put into getting the desired support working - not only by core fpc members but also general contributors. Merry Christmas/midwinter solstice/Hogswatchnight, Reinier [1] Looking at Marco's post here: http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org/msg27703.html I'm actually having doubts if the 2 RTL plan is final!?!? _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
