[Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Sven Barth schrieb:

> Before Delphi 2009 you might have been right, but with that version 
> Embarcadero did a cut and we now need to adapt and live with that.

I dare to disagree. A "ByteString" only requires a dedicated encoding 
(value), which makes it incompatible with other encodings, and thus 
disables all conversions. Such an encoding doesn't break Delphi 
compatibility, but allows to use all stringhandling functions with it.

DoDi