[Lazarus] String vs WideString

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Tue Aug 15 14:26:34 CEST 2017


On 15.08.2017 11:15, Tony Whyman via Lazarus wrote:
> 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.

I suppose by "char" you mean "single printable thingy" with Unicode it's 
rather debatable what such a thingy is.

Hence a Unicode singe char would need to be just be a Unicode string.

-Michael


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