[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:02:28 +0200
> Michael Schnell via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> 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 
>> )
>
> It does not explain what the characters of DynamicString are, does it?

I was just going to write that.

The problem of the element size is circumvented by simply not digging into it.

What does S[2] mean in your proposal ? Is it 1, 2, 4 or even 8 bytes ?


Michael.