[fpc-devel] String and UnicodeString and UTF8String

[Michael Schnell]

On 01/10/2011 09:12 AM, LacaK wrote:
> In current Delphi is String synonym for base type UnicodeString UTF-16
AFAIK, in current Delphi (which I don't have) a "String" is a variable 
that can contain dynamically coded  informations (such as locally coded 
8-Bit ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16, ...) and - of course - know which code it holds.

If a string is generated by the VCL from a Window API function, the 
coding will be UTF-16, though, but if you create a string with some 
other coding it will be automatically re-coded to UTF16 before sending 
it into a Windows API function.

-Michael