I guess that most Delphi developers understand the conversion between AnsiString and UnicodeString/WideString, but do you know what will exactly happen when converting an AnsiChar to a WideChar, or vice versa? Especially when we often see these kind of assignment statements: aWideChar := WideChar(anAnsiChar); or anAnsiChar := AnsiChar(aWideChar); Dig it!

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I guess that most Delphi developers understand the conversion between AnsiString and UnicodeString/WideString, but do you know what will exactly happen when converting an AnsiChar to a WideChar, or vice versa? Especially when we often see these kind of assignment statements:  aWideChar := WideChar(anAnsiChar); or anAnsiChar := AnsiChar(aWideChar); Dig it!

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  1. Dorin DuminicaDecember 30, 2012 at 9:57 PM

    I was hoping that by now we would have only one string type, unicode...

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  2. Frédéric HannesDecember 31, 2012 at 2:07 AM

    Dorin Duminica I prefer it this way tbh, also backwards compatibility is important.

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  3. Dorin DuminicaDecember 31, 2012 at 3:10 AM

    Frédéric Hannes I think backwards compatibility is overrated and needs to die, it only brings trouble...

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