adornKey
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I'm also not a fan of yearly payments. But with a $1200 license you usually get access to all old versions - including Delphi 7. After Delphi 6/7 at least Version 11/12 were usable for 64-bit. So I think at least once every other decade it is ok to get a usable 64-bit version of Delphi.
So far I only found decent discussions about it in Chinese.
https://www.zhihu.com/question/2070336637360518307/answer/20...
It's not that billing is complicated, but learning to set up a local AI is a lot more useful and more rewarding.
https://artoria2e5.github.io/XB18030/
It seems when designing Unicode most energy went into emoji. And there was nothing left for fancy things like fixed-length string buffers. The only explaination why UTF8 Buffers aren't compatible with UTF16 Buffers... is a really strong emoji...