[fpc-devel] cpstrrtl/unicode branch merged to trunk

[Michael Schnell]

On 09/07/2013 05:22 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
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> This means that any AnsiString variable can contain any encoding, not 
> only the declared one? What's the purpose of specially typed 
> AnsiStrings then, and the difference vs. RawByteString?
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IMHO  ( :-) :-) ) specially typed Strings are _very_ useful, as they 
allow the user to define the encoding he wants certain operations to 
take place in.

AFAIK ( :-) :-)   ) RawByteString (in Delphi) don't ever trigger 
automatic conversion.

Now my opinion is that FPC (being much more prone to be used with 
multiple encoding types that the Windows-centric Delphi - which (as has 
been point out here) even is decently buggy when used for UTF-8 - 
_should_ _additionally_ feature a versatile fully dynamically encoded 
type (which does trigger auto-conversion _when_necessary_ ) and 
implement things ling TStrings and it's siblings using same.

-Michael