Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
Will will work for 99% all all applications. Only when the developer wants to do something specific with a specific encoding, that developer can simply define a new string type as follows: eg: type MyCP850StringType = UnicodeString(cp850);That developer can then use that string knowing the encoding is CP850. But this would be very seldom needed.
I'm pretty sure that such strings will be widely used, by people that prefer to use string indexing with a fixed character size.
In any other model there is no use of any char type (except perhaps UTF32char), instead only (sub)strings should be used in code. IMO it was a wise decision that Pascal literals make no difference between char and string literals.
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