> However, as long as this codepage was one of the windows-xyz,
> single byte character sets converting back to Ansi with the
> same codepage should work without data loss and give you back
> the raw bytes (hopefully). This won't work, for example, with
> Japanese locale settings.
But there is a s
Zvone wrote:
>> However, as long as this codepage was one of the windows-xyz,
>> single byte character sets converting back to Ansi with the
>> same codepage should work without data loss and give you back
>> the raw bytes (hopefully). This won't work, for example, with
>> Japanese locale settings.
> TBytes was the datatype to be used. However that would break
> backwards compatibility since historically "string" was used everywhere.
> That all was no problem, however the rule is: "DO NOT BREAK BACKWARDS
> COMPATIBILITY" and that is where the problems begin.
Well you've already broken this r
