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Changed private TFileIO.BytesToStream method to append byes to stream rather than overwriting the stream.

Refactored TFileIO so as not to use TFile and added new WriteAllText public method.

Changed to use UIOUtils unit rather than IOUtils unit for read / writing to files.

New UIOUtils unit that contains helper code for working with file IO.

* Modified TDatabaseIniFile and TIniDataReader to handle encoding of database files correctly: they now support legacy default encoding and new UTF-8 encoding. Did this by using bew TMainDBFileReader class to do all file loading.
* Reorganised TDatabaseIniFile so that an internal stream is no longer used: all content from files through to loading of ini file is now processed in an IStringList. This avoids constantly encoding / decoding the text stream.
* Converted some of documentation to XMLDoc format.

New UMainDBFileReader unit. Implements class that can read files from main database using correct encoding.

* Made all interface implementation methods in TDOSDateTime public.
* Removed assertion that checked for NT OS - program only targets NT platform.
* Re-commented in XMLDoc style.

* Changed TDBDownloadMgr.GetDatabase to return character set used to encode data stream along with data stream itself.
* Changed TUpdateMgr to pass char set info along to TFileUpdater.
* Changed TFileUpdater to decode stream data using char set passed from TDBDownloadMgr.
* XMLDoc commented UFileUpdater unit.

Changed THTTPEx.GetResponseCharSet to return a default char set name when HTTP response does not include a char set. Previously returned empty string.

Don't want empty string because TWebCharEncodings interprets it differently to TEncodingHelper, so we would get a different encoding for empty char set from each class.

Added new ResponseCharSet property to both THTTPEx and TBaseWebService that returns the character set used for the last HTTP response.