Delphi 2009 behavioural change of “Val”

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Bob Swart Bob Swart 12 years ago in Unicode, Delphi 0
During the recent migration of a large Delphi for Win32 project (which was started in Delphi 3, and migrated to 5, 7, and 2007 along the way) to Delphi 2009, I encountered some differences in behaviour which were - after some debugging time - ultimately tracked back to the System.Val routine.