[Lazarus] UTF8String and UTF8Delete

[Sven Barth]

Am 10.12.2015 23:04 schrieb "Mattias Gaertner" <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
>
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:59:26 +0100
> Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Am 10.12.2015 19:53 schrieb "Juha Manninen" <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com>:
> >[...]
> > > 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.
>
> What about:
>
> UTF8Delete(AnsiString(Pointer(s)),1,1);

While the typecast itself would probably work I strongly advice against it
since you're relying on implementation details. Also I doubt that you can
do this for var parameters...

Regards,
Sven
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