Understanding Unicode Support in Delphi

in Coding Delphi Applications ::

If you are preparing to move / migrate your "old" Delphi applications to any Delphi version later than Delphi 2009, you must have heard that a default Delphi string type is now (where "now" means in Delphi versions >= 2009) Unicode.

What does this mean? Will you have trouble migrating your "ansi" applications? How to create new Unicode Delphi application? What has changed with Char, String and PChar types?

Read the full article to learn about Unicode Support in Delphi

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