I think he means things like EAN codes (GS1-128 may have up to 48 characters), MD5 sums (32 characters) or some small piece of base64-encoded data. If you're ABSOLUTELY sure you will store only printable ASCII data (from 0x20 to 0x7e) and do not need more than 250 characters, ShortString may be useful.
2009/11/18 Hans-Peter Diettrich <drdiettri...@aol.com> > > If binary data shall be kept in an string, then of course it's wise to use > an specific type for such strings, which does no translations of the > content. But then the contents should never be moved into other strings, but > instead into variables of other types. The type should be something like > ByteString or ByteArray, and that type should be incompatible with all other > character strings. > > DoDi > > -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa Linux User #113925 "Extremismo na defesa da liberdade não é defeito. Moderação na busca por justiça não é virtude." -- Barry Goldwater
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