RE: strings

(moving this to the Prothon-users mailing list)

> From: Chris Ryland
>
> It's a shame you can't start with full Unicode strings (only--no 
> others), and avoid a whole bunch of later warts.
> 
> Or is that already true? Can't tell from the quick scanning of the 
> latest docs.
> 
> Cheers!
> --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com

It isn't documented on the Prothon web site yet, but Prothon now has
strings that are 24 bits per character.  There is a separate data type
that is binary data bytes now.  Likewise we have binary data files and
text files.

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