[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Sven Barth]

Am 13.10.2011 11:04, schrieb 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".)

No, UnicodeString is not codepage aware.

Regards,
Sven