On Wed, 11 May 2016, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2016-05-11 10:48, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:Honestly, I don't understand this preoccupation with {$modeswitch unicodestrings} It just means that Var a : string; is read by the compiler as Var a : unicodestring; No more, no less.It saves you from data loss in the case where you use units that use the String data type and assign Unicode data to it -- and you run your program on a system where the locale is not UTF-8 or UTF-16. eg: Latin-1.
No, it does not save you, where did you get that from ? Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
