[fpc-devel] Unicode and UTF8String

[Florian Klaempfl]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> So how did people work for years with ansistring?
> 
> A ansistring used in the way proposed by FPC is extremely inconvenient
> for any GUI application which will be run in different parts of the
> globe. 

I meant more that a lot of people simply ignored in their code that
ansistrings could be also multibyte even not considering UTF-8.