In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
> AnsiString:
> up to 2^23-1 characters, reference counted, system encoding
> (determined by the code page at compilation time AFAIK)
(2^31-1 obviously, since it is 32-bit variable, but many operations
use signed types)
> WideString
> - on non-Windows: same as UnicodeString
> - on Windows: up to 2^23-1 characters (?), non reference counted (but
> managed by OS), UTF-16 encoding
(before Win2000, UCS2)
> String:
> - in all modes besides mode delphiunicode or modeswitch
> unicodestrings with H-: ShortString
> - in all modes besides mode delphiunicode or modeswitch
> unicodestrings with H+: AnsiString
> - in mode delphiunicode or modeswitch unicodestrings with H+:
> UnicodeString
> (- don't know whether this is correct: in mode delphiunicode or
> modeswitch unicodestrings with H-: ShortString)
{$mode delphunicode}{$H-} results in shortstring yes (checked by sizeof)
Note that {$mode delphi} and {$mode delphiunicode} also enable {$H+} while
e.g. mode objfpc doesn't.
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