Michael Schnell schrieb: > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: >> Ignore the name "ansi". Take it as a string type with the system >> encoding. I think it will solve the confusion. >> > Of course if you ignore "ANSI" and just use the type named "String" > there is no confusion as it's clear that the coding is not predefined. > > That is exactly what I wanted to say: If you don't use it for ANSI coded > information don't name the type "ANSIString". As FPC provides the type > "ANSIString" out of the box it should be used appropriately and this any > new user will suppose
Really? Pascal is a strongly typed language which avoids automatic conversion between types as much as possible. > that there is support for conversion between this > type and other string types that explicitly are called differently > according to their suggested internal coding (such as UTF8String. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
