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== WideChar ==
 
== WideChar ==
  
A variable of type WideChar is exactly 2 bytes in size, and contains one UniCode character in UTF-16 encoding.
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A variable of type WideChar is exactly 2 bytes in size, and contains one [[LCL Unicode Support|Unicode]] character in UTF-16 encoding.
  
 
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Revision as of 15:47, 28 December 2013

Free Pascal supports several types of characters and strings.

AnsiChar

A variable of type AnsiChar is exactly 1 byte in size, and contains one ASCII character.

a

WideChar

A variable of type WideChar is exactly 2 bytes in size, and contains one Unicode character in UTF-16 encoding.

a