On Wed, 16 Aug 2017, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote: > On 15.08.2017 22:45, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: >> How is that not "abuse"??? > IMHO it's a major shortcoming to define "string" as "printable text". On the contrary. That is exactly what it means. Anything else is just a collection of bytes. Michael.