On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 01/07/2014 01:05 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
This is a mistake. You should use TByteArray for that. "Old" pre-unicode
Delphi also handles this type.
Of course I do know that this sometimes is recommended, but (with pre-Unicode
Delphi) I don't see any point in not using "String", which is a lot more
handy providing easy to use concatenation, search operation, etc.
With a new string type this would come for free, as it requires the same
behavior as the "locale based 1 Byte ANSI String" encoding variant, which is
necessary to be supported anyway.
Thus, IMHO, a discussion about TByteArray is pointless
Maybe.
But like I said:
Do not expect us to adapt the RTL to suit any inappropriate use of strings.
Michael.
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