On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, peter green wrote:
> where are theese default versions located in the code? > In the inc directory of the rtl. wstrings.inc procedure Wide2AnsiMove(source:pwidechar;dest:pchar;len:SizeInt); procedure Ansi2WideMove(source:pchar;dest:pwidechar;len:SizeInt); Michael. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alexey > > Barkovoy > > Sent: 05 January 2005 07:36 > > To: FPC developers' list > > Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] ansistrings and widestrings > > > > > > > if i do ansistringvar := widestringvar or widestringvar := ansistringvar > > > what does the compiler do? > > > > > > 1: use the systems default encoding (if so obtained from where?) > > > 2: use utf-8 > > > 3: use iso-8859-1 > > > 4: use something else? > > > > > > furthermore if the encoding used is one not capable of representing all > > > unicode code points what are the reduction rules used in the > > conversion from > > > widestring to ansistring? > > > > Compiler internally uses Wide2AnsiMoveProc and Ansi2WideMoveProc > > functions which > > can be reassigned by user. Currently their are just maping lower > > 128 chars in > > one representation to other. On Windows there are system > > functions that can be > > used to do conversion: MultiByteToWideChar and > > WideCharToMultiByte - these > > functions can take into account specified or globally set code page. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] > > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
