Re: [fpc-devel] Unicode RTL for FPC

2023-01-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023, Adriaan van Os via fpc-devel wrote: Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote: - String = UnicodeString, Char=WideChar UnicodeString ? ? I don't know what that is supposed to be. We have UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 and UTF-8 Some marketing people, not understanding anything a

Re: [fpc-devel] Unicode RTL for FPC

2023-01-06 Thread Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel
On 6-1-2023 20:36, Adriaan van Os via fpc-devel wrote: Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote: - String = UnicodeString, Char=WideChar UnicodeString ? ? I don't know what that is supposed to be. It is named after Microsofts use of the word unicode. Which was originally UCS2,  but morphed

Re: [fpc-devel] Unicode RTL for FPC

2023-01-06 Thread Jonas Maebe via fpc-devel
On 06/01/2023 20:36, Adriaan van Os via fpc-devel wrote: Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote: - String = UnicodeString, Char=WideChar UnicodeString ? ? I don't know what that is supposed to be. We have UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 and UTF-8 Some marketing people, not understanding anything abou

Re: [fpc-devel] Unicode RTL for FPC

2023-01-06 Thread Adriaan van Os via fpc-devel
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote: - String = UnicodeString, Char=WideChar UnicodeString ? ? I don't know what that is supposed to be. We have UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 and UTF-8 Some marketing people, not understanding anything about computers, talk about "Unicode" to mean "UTF-16-treated-

[fpc-devel] Unicode RTL for FPC

2023-01-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel
Hello, I'm currently working for a company (Tixeo.com) that is preparing to use FPC to recompile their flagship product (written in Delphi) for certain targets. As part of this work, we're striving to make the Free Pascal RTL and Packages more compatible with recent Delphis. That means: -