[fpc-devel] Save the current FPC UnicodeString!

[Florian Klaempfl]

dmitry boyarintsev schrieb:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Florian Klaempfl
> <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> Ansistring: system encoding
>> RawByteString: variable encoding, cannot be checked at compile time,
>> when working with RawByteStrings, you've to take care of the newly
>> introduced encoding field
> 
> Let's say there's a library that works with AnsiString as a string
> type with no encoding (as it's now).

Well, an ansistring has an implicit encoding: system. This won't change
and if one uses only unicodestrings and ansistrings, no change will be
noticed.

> Let's assume that the new branche is officially accepted.
> The library doesn't want the new feature, but it also doesn't want to
> change its code from AnsiString to RawByteString.
> 
> Would it be possible to make the following type declaration:
> 
> unit MainLibTypes;
> 
> type
>   AnsiString = RawByteString;
> 
> to avoid using new auto-converters?

No, because it would avoid auto-conversion from/to unicodestring as well.