Re: [fpc-pascal] string to widestring : what are the difficulties ?

2016-10-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 09/10/16 08:50, Sven Barth wrote: Am 08.10.2016 22:48 schrieb "Ched" >: In http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu14.html#x37-43.2.8 , the

Re: [fpc-pascal] string to widestring : what are the difficulties ?

2016-10-09 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 09/10/16 08:50, Sven Barth wrote: Am 08.10.2016 22:48 schrieb "Ched" >: In http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu14.html#x37-43.2.8 , the stack sized used by a Shortstring is Declared

Re: [fpc-pascal] string to widestring : what are the difficulties ?

2016-10-09 Thread Sven Barth
Am 08.10.2016 22:48 schrieb "Ched" < charles.edouard.des.vastes.vig...@gmail.com>: > In http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu14.html#x37-43.2.8 , the stack sized used by a Shortstring is Declared length + 2 . Why not Declared length + 1 ? 1 Byte length and a zero byte to allow easy

[fpc-pascal] string to widestring : what are the difficulties ?

2016-10-08 Thread Ched
Hello, In http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu14.html#x37-43.2.8 , the stack sized used by a Shortstring is Declared length + 2 . Why not Declared length + 1 ? Is it easy to change software codes using strings encoded in CP437 to widestring ? I hope so as widestring has no