I don't see you complaining about the fact that char is not 8 bit anymore, and that that abandons that part of the pascal syntax.
When doing the most common string stuff like case s[i] of '1', 'a', 'ä': ...
This does not really hurt.
even
n := ord(s[i]) - ord('0'); works with 16 bit/char strings.
-Michael
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