[Lazarus] String vs WideString

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Wed Aug 16 11:06:41 CEST 2017



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.


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