[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Michael Schnell]

On 15.08.2017 11:15, Tony Whyman via Lazarus wrote:
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> In this case, I would argue that both are true.
And the culprit obviously is Embarcadeo and not the fpc or the Lazarus 
team, who did their best to try to do a compatible and implementation 
that is really workable on the multiple supported platforms (which E$ 
did not feel necessary when they released the encoding aware strings).

Maybe a better solution can be found, but who would want to nudge the 
fpc / Lazarus developers to invest a huge amount of time to create it 
and then make sure it is decently tested stable ?

-Michael