[fpc-pascal] TStringHelper and Utf8String

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 8/28/26 9:43 AM, Bart via fpc-pascal wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 11:30 PM Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
>>    S := 'äfoo';
>>    writeln (String(S).IndexOf('f')); // prints "2", as expected
> 
> As expected?
> In the Utf8String 'f' will be at index 3, since the 'ä' will take up 2
> bytes in UTF8-encoding.

ummm... is it in that writeln, though? looks to me like the UTF8 is cast to an 
old school mono-byte String type ;)