In our previous episode, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho said: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Btw will the LCL remain forcedly UTF-8 ? I thought the current Lazarus > > unicode support was temporary and all options were still open, depending on > > the outcome of FPC unicode support options? > > It is certainly not temporary, also considering people won't be very > happy to see us make a big incompatible change right after telling > them to convert their source code to UTF-8. I think we have a > responsability to stay coherent here.
Well, euh, you will need a change anyway from manual to automated ? > I think we may consider migrating to UTF8String when it's implemented > and if it proves a viable solution. > > Not to mention: What would the alternative be? Well, the logical one of course: RTLString, IOW encoding platform dependant. Except maybe selected widgets like synedit. (Borland stores source in utf-8 too on windows) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
