On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Martin Schreiber <mse00...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2012 18:51:42 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >> Also: >> Lazarus happened to choose UTF-8 as the encoding of their LCL. >> By contrast, MSEGui chose UTF-16 as it's encoding. >> > In order to differentiate from other string types and encodings MSEgui > uses "msestring" in properties, variables and parameters. msestring is > defined as > " > type > msestring = UnicodeString; > "
But even so, we still can pass AnsiString <UTF8String, string, whatever> to a function: type MyString = UnicodeString; procedure Foo(const s: MyString); begin ShowMessage(s); end; procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var s: AnsiString; begin s := 'hi'; Foo(s); end; Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
