o support for ansistring constants. It's done via a detour because the
JVM only supports UTF-16 string constants (no array of byte or anything
like that): store every ansicharacter in the lower 8 bits of an
UTF-16 constant string, and at run time copy the characters to an
ansistring. The alternative is to generate code that stores every
character separately to an array.
o the base ansistring support is implemented in a class called
AnsistringClass, and an ansistring is simply an instance of this
class under the hood
o the compiler currently does generate nil pointers as empty
ansistrings unlike for unicodestrings, where we always
explicitly generate an empty string. The reason is that
unicodestrings are the same as JLString and hence common
for Java interoperation, while ansistrings are unlikely to
be used in interaction with external Java code
* fixed indentation
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