Quote Originally Posted by savage
Can I ask why you do not want to use Unicode?

There are some easy to use, drop in replacements of Delphi's components called TNT Controls which are free and support Unicode, if that is what is worrying you. I have used TNT Controls in 2 projects now and they work wonderfully.
because I'm not using controls. All my text is manipulated with the string variable type and TStringList class, and is then rendered with D3D. I don't feel like adapting the whole app to use widestring variable type. Also I would need a unicode compliant TStringList.