On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 30.07.2017 12:37, Bo Berglund wrote:
I asked about this problem over at Embarcadero too, but was flamed
foreven thinking about using any kind of string for storing binary data.
They are silly and defending their completely silly implementation of
Code aware strings, forcing UTF-16 for any TStrings based classes.
The fpc implementation (forcing UTF-8 for any TStrings based classes) is
slightly less silly.
Small correction:
FPC "forces" nothing. It offers a single-byte string TStrings implementation.
If you want to use that for Unicode, you indeed have no choice but to use UTF8
or use/write a separate class that uses UTF16.
Michael.
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