On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 13:56:42 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote: >[...] > Anyway, I was just trying to say that a 1-byte string is not necessarily UTF-8 in FPC 2.7.1. Yes, you can still store anything you like in strings. And you can store UTF-8 in a string and say it is not. Mattias