WideString: what changed

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Title: WideString

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1	+	Back to [[Data type\|data types]].
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3	+	The [[Data type\|data type]] [[Widestring\|WideString]] has no size limit and comprises of an array of type [[WideChar]]. The functions of the LazUTF8 unit are there to facilitate the conversion of types from [[Ansistring\|AnsiString]] to [[Widestring\|WideString]] and from [[Widestring\|WideString]] to [[Ansistring\|AnsiString]].
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5	+	The examples below are for Windows operating systems!
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7	+	``` pascal
8	+	Uses
9	+	...,
10	+	LazUTF8,
11	+	...;
12	+
13	+	...
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15	+	{ Definition of the WideString and AnsiString data types }
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17	+	Var
18	+	w: WideString;
19	+	a: AnsiString;
20	+
21	+	Begin
22	+	{ Examples of correct assignment of AnsiString to WideString }
23	+
24	+	w: = UTF8ToUTF16 ('0123ABCabc456AöU!, .-');
25	+	w: = w + UTF8ToUTF16 (IntToString (45));
26	+
27	+	{ Example of correct assignment of a WideString to an AnsiString }
28	+
29	+	a: = UTF16ToUTF8 (w);
30	+
31	+	...
32	+	end;
33	+	```
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35	+	---
36	+	From the Free Pascal wiki, page "WideString", as it stood on 2023-12-22 after a change by Alextpp, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).