[fpc-devel] Proof of Concept ARC implementation

[Sven Barth]

On 29.10.2014 15:33, hinstance at yandex.ru wrote:
> I believe that whoever came up with new strings overcomplicated it
> Consider Java and C# : they do not store encoding in string variables

Because in C# and Java they are UTF-16. Keep in mind that Delphi also 
changed to UTF-16 based strings (UnicodeString) and introduced the code 
page aware AnsiString for easy access to single byte strings (reading 
files, etc.).

Regards,
Sven