Hi all,

I'm converting a Delphi 2009 project to FPC. In this project all strings are widestrings, which is default for Delphi 2009. However, in FPC all strings are still 'normal' strings. Is there a way (compiler switch?) to use widestring as default for all strings in FPC?

Kind regards,
Birger Jansen

(I'm not sure if this message should go here or to Lazarus list since it is not entirely clear to me if strings belong to FPC or Lazarus. Forgive me if this is the wrong list!)

Birger Jansen wrote

Hi all, I'm converting a Delphi 2009 project to FPC. In this project all strings are widestrings, which is default for Delphi 2009. However, in FPC all strings are still 'normal' strings. Is there a way (compiler switch?) to use widestring as default for all strings in FPC?

Yes. Checkout cpstrnew branch and complete missing things.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

Strings belong to FPC, so this is the right list (fpc-pascal would be slightly more appropriate, but that doesn't matter). That said, FPC does not have such an option at this time.

Keep in mind that Delphi 2009's default string type is much more than a regular widestring. Using "unicodestring" instead in FPC would be more correct, but even then you won't have the same support yet (that first requires the completion of the cpstrnew branch, as Paul indicated).

Jonas

Thanks for the answer, Paul and Jonas. I'll check how cpstrnew works for me. Although I'm not sure if I have enough knowledge to actually contribute something in these deeper parts of the FPC-dungeon, I will report my findings.

Kind regards,
Birger Jansen