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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">>  codepage aware AnsiString was one of the disruptive changes that couldn't really be avoided. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">IMHO, it could have been avoided (largely), but that would have come at the cost of less perfect compatibility with Delphi XE (which even more severely broke compatibility to previous Delphi versions by their rather silly
 implementation). This obviously was the more important goal. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-Michael</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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