[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Michael Schnell]

On 10/11/2011 07:33 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>
> Concrete types are required when strings are manipulated (parsed...), 
> and the implementation assumes a certain encoding.
Why do you think so. when parsing, a 32 bit Unicode character can be 
extracted from a new string with any (not raw) encoding. When 
manipulating partial strings and assignments get the encoding of the 
original string, when comparing strings, conversion is done automatically.

For speed, the user might want to do his code appropriately (e.g. by 
anticipating conversions).

-Michael