On 2016-05-09 11:47, Jonas Maebe wrote: > Having opinions available is not the issue. Getting people to completely > implement all of their opinions so that we can compare all options in > practice,
And we all know that will never happen in FPC. Neither does it happen [implementing every possible alternative to a problem] in any other software product or company I've ever come across. So if you think that is a solution for FPC, I fear you are mistaken. Again, real-world solution have already been presented to you [the FPC team]. Java, C# and Delphi 2009+ and many others. Don't tell me they all got it wrong (with there much larger development teams and resources). Simply switch the RTL to UnicodeString (UTF-16) everywhere and be done. Yes you might take a popularity hit for a while with some, but there is NO way you can please everybody. Somebody will always have an issue. And like I said, if they don't like the new direction, fork the project and do your own thing, or stick with FPC 2.6.4 and maintain it yourself. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
