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A variable of type '''WideChar''', which has a synonym of [[UnicodeChar]] ''(type UnicodeChar = WideChar;)'' , is exactly 2 bytes in size, and usually contains one Unicode character in UTF-16 encoding. As it is impossible to encode all Unicode code points (a code point normally corresponds to a character) in 2 bytes, two WideChars may be needed to encode a single code point. As of version 3 of Free Pascal, the [[Char]] datatype is a synonym for an [[AnsiChar]]. However, in the future the Free Pascal compiler may consider Char a synonym for WideChar.
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A variable of type '''WideChar''', which has a synonym of [[UnicodeChar]] ''(type UnicodeChar = WideChar;)'' , is exactly 2 bytes in size, and usually contains one Unicode character in UTF-16 encoding. As it is impossible to encode all Unicode code points (a code point normally corresponds to a character) in 2 bytes, two WideChars may be needed to encode a single code point.  
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As of version 3 of Free Pascal, the [[Char]] datatype is a synonym for an [[AnsiChar]]. However, in the future the Free Pascal compiler may consider Char a synonym for WideChar.
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==

Latest revision as of 14:44, 21 July 2016

A variable of type WideChar, which has a synonym of UnicodeChar (type UnicodeChar = WideChar;) , is exactly 2 bytes in size, and usually contains one Unicode character in UTF-16 encoding. As it is impossible to encode all Unicode code points (a code point normally corresponds to a character) in 2 bytes, two WideChars may be needed to encode a single code point.

As of version 3 of Free Pascal, the Char datatype is a synonym for an AnsiChar. However, in the future the Free Pascal compiler may consider Char a synonym for WideChar.

See also