Goal:
- IDE should load/save text files in non UTF-8 encodings.
- The IDE is compiled with UTF-8 LCL, so all internal functions expects
this.
- It is not sufficient to change synedit, because text is often copied
between synedit and other tools. And there many other IDE tools
reading/editing text files. The central text loading/saving routines
is the TCodeBuffer in the codetools. For performance and
consistency almost all functions use these text file caches. There are
a few exceptions.
- When a TCodeBuffer loads a file it must find out the encoding,
convert it to UTF-8 and on saving convert it back.
Problems:
* How to find out the encoding?
- BOM
- lpi file
- heuristic
- system char set
* What about buggy text files?
Vasily, your lconv.pas uses libc. AFAIK this unit only exists on a
few platforms. For example not on amd64 nor sparc.
Mattias
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