On Friday 29 February 2008 09.25:18 Daniël Mantione wrote: > Op Fri, 29 Feb 2008, schreef Martin Schreiber: > > On Friday 29 February 2008 09.02:02 Daniël Mantione wrote: > >> Op Fri, 29 Feb 2008, schreef Martin Schreiber: > >>> Hi, > >>> Is there a way in current FPC to have unicode or wide resourcestrings? > >>> Thanks, > >> > >> Resourcestrings are ansistrings, so the answer is no. This is indeed a > >> shortcoming in a widestring environment, the only solution is probably > >> to encode them UTF-8. > > > > This works with utf-8 system encoding only -> not in an usual Windows > > installation. > > There is utf8decode/utf8encode. > The big advantage of resourcestrings is that they can be used like normal string constants in the source. If I need to call utf8encode for every used stringconstant I can use the MSEgui widestring stockcaption facility instead.
> > Are there plans to implement unicode resourcestrings? > > No, but this is just because you are the first one to ask. Could you make > a proposal? Then we'll see how this can be implemented. > Ideally from my point of view would be if the resourcestrings are stored in utf-8 if the unit is compiled with -Fcutf8 and decoded by utf8decode for widestring assignment on runtime independent of the system encoding. Martin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
