On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isn't a string backward compatible with a Char?
I don't understand your question? Ansi Char is always 1 bytes. A UTF-8 character can be anything from 1-4 bytes. The non-breaking spaces is such a case, being 2 bytes and the ThousandSeparator variable only accepting 1 byte. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel