[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-08-15 20:22, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus wrote:
> Wait a minute, why "abuse"?
> After all, before code aware strings, an ansistring could store any kind
> of arbitrary data with no problem and no conversion, and made it
> extremely easy


Just listen to what you are saying.... A string type and you want to 
store all kinds of non-string related data in that type. How is that not 
"abuse"???  Use a TBytes, TStream or other binary byte based storage 
mechanism. A string type was definitely not the right choice.

Regards,
   Graeme

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