[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-08-15 10:52, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
> The only 'problem' is that TStrings uses a single-byte string.

Why can't that be changed to a UnicodeString or UTF8String - after all, 
the Unicode standard is meant to support all languages. I would have 
thought that would be an obvious move for a Unicode-aware RTL. TStrings 
could also be extended (if it hasn't already) to keep track of what 
encoding is read in from file, and what encoding in should procedure 
when lines are extracted - in case those two encodings are not the same.

Regards,
   Graeme

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