[Lazarus] UTF8String and UTF8Delete

[Sven Barth]

On 13.12.2015 10:55, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>  > For most cases things did not change very much. Earlier you had to use
>  > the explicit UTF8...() functions, now you don't need them.
>
> What does this mean?
> If I use DELETE on a String type (that is an UTF-8 string)
> does it now use UTF8Delete internally?

Utf8Delete is a LCL function, not a RTL function while Delete is an RTL 
function. The latter does not know about the former.

> Does it delete bytes or code points?
> Does LENGTH now give back the number of bytes or the
> number of characters (when used on an UTF-8 String)?

In both cases its Byte. I *think* we have some functionality to deal 
with code points as well, but I'd need to look that up as I'm not 
working with these that much...

Regards,
Sven