[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Sven Barth]

Am 12.10.2011 14:16, schrieb Michael Schnell:
> On 10/12/2011 12:13 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>>
>> Delphi allows for RawByteStrings with encoding 0. When assigned to an
>> AnsiString, the string encoding still is zero, both variables seem to
>> point to the same string data.
>
> The pointing to the data array (managed by "lazy copy and reference
> counting features) is independent from the encoding ID, that is part of
> the string management record and not of the data array.

Wrong. Both reference counting and code page are part of the management 
record. See here line 38: 
http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/rtl/inc/astrings.inc?revision=19444&view=markup

Regards,
Sven