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On 02/28/2012 02:24 PM, Sven Barth wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4F4CD586.6030003@googlemail.com" type="cite">This
might be, but this shows that we do not need to extend the
compiler with yet another managed type when all we need is already
available.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Of course you are quite right, but before the Unicode transition
this was available out of the box as "String" and used in multiple
projects, but after the Unicode this is not so sure.<br>
<br>
ANSIString supposedly still can be used, but to me the name "String"
<u>sounded</u> as if no encoding is necessary to be taken into
account, and thus simply storing Bytes is not a bad idea, while
ANSIString sounds as if the encoding has to be ANSI and this is
essential for the internal proceedings. I do know that the contrary
is true: "ANSISting" can happily be used for everything while in
Delphi XE "String" imposes one of several encoding schemes. To me
this naming is extremely ambiguous.<br>
<br>
-Michael<br>
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