[fpc-devel] Encoded AnsiString

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Michael Schnell wrote:

> On 01/07/2014 12:27 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> if you have use-case 1 (which I doubt, since it is not possible even today) 
>> then you're better off using unicodestring anyway.
>
> My argumentation is driven by the experience (some myself, a huge lot by my 
> colleagues) with doing "embedded" M2M-communication projects with multiple 
> protocols and applications (included in the project and/or predefined by 
> customers) and with some programs requiring sophisticated user interaction in 
> multiple languages.
>
> The projects originally were done (mine still are done) using old pre-Unicode 
> Delphi.
>
> Here, strings are used as well to handle  texts as to handle byte streams 
> (that might contain binary data or might contain text in whatever encoding).

This is a mistake. You should use TByteArray for that. 
"Old" pre-unicode Delphi also handles this type.

You cannot expect us to take into account your improper use of single-byte strings 
when designing a RTL.

You'll just have to see whether rawbytestring does what you need...

Michael.