[Lazarus] Lazarus Release 1.8

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:32:24 +0200
Kostas Michalopoulos via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus <
> lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> > https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/rawbytestring.html
> >
> > it's an ansistring.  
> 
> This is IMO misleading since nowadays AnsiString has codepage information
> and a plain AnsiString as shown in the page you linked can be any codepage
> whereas RawByteString is always CP_NONE.

At compile time it is CP_NONE, at runtime it can be any codepage.

> RawByteString and AnsiString are not equivalent.

True.

Mattias