[fpc-devel] Encoded AnsiString

[Michael Schnell]

On 01/07/2014 01:05 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> This is a mistake. You should use TByteArray for that. "Old" 
> pre-unicode Delphi also handles this type.

Of course I do know that this sometimes is recommended, but (with 
pre-Unicode Delphi) I don't see any point in not using "String", which 
is a lot more handy providing easy to use concatenation, search 
operation, etc.

With a new string type this would come for free, as it requires the same 
behavior as the "locale based 1 Byte ANSI String" encoding variant, 
which is necessary to be supported anyway.

Thus, IMHO, a discussion about TByteArray is pointless

-Michael