[Lazarus] UTF8String and UTF8Delete

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:29:28 +0100
"Jürgen Hestermann" <Juergen.Hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:

>[...]
> >An "UTF8String" and an "UTF8 String" are two different things for the
> >compiler. See below.
>  
> What is the difference? The link does not tell me.

An "UTF8 String" is a String encoded in UTF-8. String and UTF8String
are two different things for the compiler. My link explains some
differences important for Lazarus.
For full technical differences read 
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPC_Unicode_support
and
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Character_and_string_types

  
> As fas as I know, there is no (useful) usage of LazUTF8-Routines
> with strings of other encodings than UTF8.
> So why is it used?
> And was not the addition of encodings to strings
> introduced to overcome all this encoding hassle?

The string codepage attribute was introduced for Delphi compatibility.
The encoding hassle is built into Windows. The compiler cannot overcome
it. It can only give you tools to make it easier.


Mattias