Regarding the discussion of potentially providing the Delphi compatible "String" type with 16 bit characters: What is in this case happening to Short strings. I don't know how Delphi handles this.
-Michael
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Unicode and Short Strings
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- Michael Schnell 2
- Tomas Hajny 2
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Michael Schnell wroteRegarding the discussion of potentially providing the Delphi compatible "String" type with 16 bit characters: What is in this case happening to Short strings. I don't know how Delphi handles this.
Type ShortString stays unchanged (locale specific 8-bit character set).
Tomas
Tomas Hajny wroteType ShortString stays unchanged (locale specific 8-bit character set).
Thus there will be auto-conversion when doing MyShortString := MyString; ?Thanks,
-Michael
Michael Schnell wroteOn 08/31/2012 03:21 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote: > Type ShortString stays unchanged (locale specific 8-bit character set). > Thus there will be auto-conversion when doing MyShortString := MyString; ?
Yes, this auto-conversion already exists now.
Tomas