Santiago A. wrote on Tue, 26 Jul 2016:
El 26/07/2016 a las 12:27, Mattias Gaertner escribió:
a3:=a1+a2 => cp = 1252
a3:=a2+a1 => cp = 65001
Is that the expected behavior?
IMHO the result should be the same. And the only way is to make it
depend on a3, no matter what is in the left side. That's the way things
are done in Pascal
String concatenations are not commutative operations, even if no code
pages are involved (even in Pascal). I think it is logical that the
code page of the left operand is kept, because it is the "base string"
to which you add other data.
The fact that the concatenated data is not converted in this scenario
makes some sense in the context of the "same declared code page -> no
conversion" rule that is also used for assignments, but it's something
I'm less happy about. Maintaining multiple helpers, compiler
behaviours and documentation is even less enticing though, so I will
implement the Delphi behaviour. It will also slightly speed up string
concatenations when all strings have the same declared code page,
because no checks need to be performed at run time regarding whether
or not data needs to be converted.
Jonas
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