[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Michael Schnell]

On 10/13/2011 10:52 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
>
>> So you suggest that in Delphi XE, UnicodeString is _not_ a "new String"
>> Type ?
>
>
> I don't know what you describe as "new string", but "UnicodeString" 
> was introduced as a new type in Delphi 2009 and "String" was made an 
> alias to "UnicodeString". If you want to use the code page aware 
> string, then you need to use "AnsiString(xyz)" which is no longer used 
> for "String".
>
The question was: "in XE, is UnicodeString not a "code page aware" 
String (under the hood) ?" (No question about usage, FPC, or D2009 or 
alias to "string".)

-Michael