SetWideStringManager procedure
Set the widestring manager.
Declaration
procedure SetWideStringManager(const &New: TUnicodeStringManager)Description
SetWideStringManager sets the current widestring manager to
New.
Optionally, it returns the currently active widestring manager in
Old.
WideStrings are implemented in different ways on different platforms.
Therefore, the Free Pascal Runtime library has no fixed implementation of
widestring routines. Instead, it defines a WideString manager record,
with callbacks that can be set to an implementation which is most
efficient on the current platform. On windows, standard Windows
routines will be used. On Unix and Linux, an implementation based on the
C library is available (in unit cwstring).
It is possible to implement a custom widestring manager, optimized for the current application, without having to recompile the complete Run-Time Library.
See also
An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.