[fpc-pascal] Adding file to string to the RTL

[Alexander Grotewohl]

Not 100% on this but I think the gist is that UnicodeString is compatible with AnsiString and a conversion is done on assignment.

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From: fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal-bounces at lists.freepascal.org> on behalf of Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
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Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Adding file to string to the RTL



> On Oct 6, 2020, at 2:12 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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> I added the following functions to the sysutils unit (rev 47056):

Great, thanks Michael.

I've always used AnsiString so why is UnicodeString preferable here?

So is the idea we need to specify an UTF-8 encoding for unicode otherwise it assumes ASCII format? I didn't specify the encoding with TStringList and I always seemed to get back what I wanted (maybe it sniffed the encoding from the file?).

Regards,
        Ryan Joseph

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