[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Bart]

On 8/15/17, Tony Whyman via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> 2. Clean up the char type.
>
>     Why shouldn't there be a single char
>     type that intuitively represents a single character regardless of
>     how many bytes are used to represent it.

You would have to define what "a single character" means in the first place.
This is especially important when it involves precomposed characters
and combining characters.

Bart