On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Ok, you're right... so compile these libraries again! This would not be the simplest way? Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
