On 12/12/2015 11:21 AM, Juha Manninen wrote:
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 6:16 PM, <wkitt...@windstream.net> wrote:
i mean, i'm really old school... i normally use just string or string[xx]...
sometimes ansistring... it is all so damned confusing now :(
It is no more confusing than in Delphi where the default String has
UTF-16 encoding.
i don't do delphi... never have and never will ;)
In Lazarus it is now UTF-8. Besides, it is amazingly compatible with
Delphi at source level.
In any case the current system is much better than the old AnsiString
+ dedicated UTF...() functions hack.
ok... so do we just define a var as string and stuff any old thing into it? if
so, /how/ does it know that two or more bytes are for one code point or whether
they are actually separate bytes? i still do a lot of stuff with the old >127
CP437 graphical characters (especially the single and double line box drawing
characters) and things are really messed up at times...
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