Re: Did Borland doing well in Q4? Listen to the Earning CC

Jolyon Smith wrote:

Why would anyone have to "ansify" their projects to ensure correct continued behaviour?


Because "String" will now mean "UnicodeString". No if's, not but's, no choice.

Changing an type does not necessarily affect the application code. Changing Byte to Integer or Int64 does not normally require further adjustments. Why then for String?

So to _ensure_ that your ANSI application continues to behave correctly AS an ANSI application you will need to change all "String" declarations to "ANSIString" (and Char to ANSIChar and PChar to ANSIChar) etc.

Why that? Do the used controls and library functions still only accept AnsiString?

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