[fpc-pascal] RTL and Unicode Strings

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2016-05-11 10:48, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> Honestly, I don't understand this preoccupation with {$modeswitch  unicodestrings}
> 
> It just means that
> 
> Var
>   a : string;
> 
> is read by the compiler as
> 
> Var
>   a : unicodestring;
> 
> No more, no less.


It saves you from data loss in the case where you use units that use the
String data type and assign Unicode data to it -- and you run your
program on a system where the locale is not UTF-8 or UTF-16. eg: Latin-1.


Regards,
  Graeme

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