[fpc-devel] Encoded AnsiString

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Michael Schnell wrote:

> On 01/07/2014 11:22 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> There is not much to say.
>> 
>> There will be 2 sets of units:
>> * Unicode
>> * AnsiString
>> 
>> for unicode, there is no problem, since everything is 2 bytes (ignoring 
>> some exotic codepoints here) so string encoding does not apply.
>> 
>> for ansistring, string=ansistring, there are some encoding issues, but the 
>> RTL is capable of using Widestrings for all OS interface routines.
>
> This might help in a certain way, but defining a decently dynamic string 
> subtype and use same for TStringList would allow for a lot more flexibility / 
> functionality. (Together with eliminating the ambiguous naming "ANSI...")

TRawByteString is what you need.

Michael.