Summary on Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicode file routines proposal

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Paul Ishenin wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > You can still do C:=S[i]. What you cannot do is
> >
> >   P:=PChar(S);
> >   While (P^<>#0) do
> >    SomeByteSizedOperation;
> >   
> Why you cannot? PChar(S) should represent S as raw bytes. If you know what you
> are doing - it will not harm. In other case, if you corrupt the string then
> you are responsibile for all problems you get.

Obviously you can :-) 
But what I meant was that you shouldn't expect old code 
that relied on 1-byte characters to work.

Michael.