On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:15:00PM +0000, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Personally I think FPC and Lazarus should get rid of "string"
> altogether! It should be a user definable type that can be defined per
> project.
>
> eg:
> Projects could do the following
>
> type
> {$IFDEF WINDOWS}
> UnicodeString = UTF16String
> {$ENDIF}
> {$IFDEF UNIX}
> UnicodeString = UTF8String
> {$ENDIF}
> String = UnicodeString
> // or for backwards compatibility with old projects:
> // String = AnsiString
Please read 4 years of discussion backlog. It is not all language, there is
something called
"libraries", and they are generally installed precompiled.
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