On 2 January 2011 21:22, Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote: >> And currently UTF8String is defined as AnsiString, so there is currently no >> difference > > That's what I thought. So why did they [FPC team] actually bother to > create the UTF8String type then?
Maybe this is just to help developers, so you can use it to remind yourself (or other people working on your code) that a certain string contains utf8, so that you/they remember to use the conversion functions, etc. Just a guess. Henry -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
