[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Michael Schnell]

On 15.08.2017 11:52, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
> This cannot be solved properly except by duplicating the classes unit.

Sorry to disagree, but IMHO this can only be solved properly by defining 
an additional fully dynamically encoded string type and use same for 
TStrings (see -> 
http://wiki.freepascal.org/not_Delphi_compatible_enhancement_for_Unicode_Support 
)

But I am perfectly aware that implementing this would be a huge effort 
(see other mail here), and nobody i entitled to ask for this. (I wrote 
the article just to elaborate what was discussed in the fpc mailing list 
at that time.)

-Michael