[fpc-pascal] Assigning string constant to a WideString and the Format function

[Tomas Hajny]

On Wed, December 23, 2015 11:41, Lubos Pintes wrote:


Hello Lubos,

> The result isthe same, I tried it before I wrote my message.
> I even tried to temporarily write ordinal codes of characters, it seems
> that a string is not automatically converted to a WideString when
> assigned, there wereno zeros, like H#0e#0l#0, etc.

If you look at ordinal codes of characters in a WideString using
Ord(WideStringVar[x]), you would never see any zeros, because the ordinal
value represents the character (actually codepoint), not individual bytes.

Tomas