If you want to help, we need to implement the Delphi 2009 encoding
aware string type, both runtime support as well as the compiler support.
A previous discussion showed that this also breaks a lot of old code and
is not really nice.
So a better concept seems to have a dedicated type for any possible
Coding (ANSISTring <of course locale-depending>, UTF8String,
UTF16String, maybe UCS2String, too) and let the user choose (e.g. by a
"{$" compiler option) which one he want to be used for "String" and
"WideString". This would allow for simple compiler magic to perform any
necessary conversion (including assigning constants).
-Michael
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