[Lazarus] String vs WideString

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Tue Aug 15 14:53:00 CEST 2017


On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:26:34 +0200
Michael Schnell via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> 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.

Do you mean a 'char' is a string in your proposal?

Mattias


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