[Lazarus] UTF8String and UTF8Delete

[Sven Barth]

Am 10.12.2015 19:53 schrieb "Juha Manninen" <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com>:
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Ondrej Pokorny <lazarus at kluug.net> wrote:
> > IMO, there should be overloaded versions for UTF8* functions that
> > explicitely accept UTF8String.
> > Or am I wrong?
>
> You are right. I did not even think so far yet.
> A typecast can be used as a workaround now.
> UTF8String and AnsiString have the same memory layout so it should work.

This has nothing to do with the memory layout. Both Utf8String and
AnsiString are AnsiString types and an assignment to each other or a
typecast will result in a codepage conversion if necessary.

Regards,
Sven
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