[Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 1 of 1.8.0

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 18.05.2017 21:48, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote:
> On 18.05.2017 17:20, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
>> True.
>
> Should I enable it by default?

I implemented it in r54976 and made it default because all 8-bit string 
types are equivalent for the compiler, so it makes perfect sense not to 
mix them; if I am not mistaken.

Ondrej