<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:33 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hinstance@yandex.ru" target="_blank">hinstance@yandex.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I believe that whoever came up with new strings overcomplicated it<br>
Consider Java and C# : they do not store encoding in string variables<br></blockquote></div><br>And NSFoundation (the foundation for Cocoa and iOS) strings do.<br><br>But adding encoding was not about "what other languages do", its was about Delphi compatibility.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">thanks,<br>Dmtiry<br><br></div></div>