In our previous episode, Martin Schreiber said: > On Wednesday 17 February 2010 09:15:53 Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > > Reject as far as I'm concerned. I'd like to see the RTL being in the system > > encoding. (IOW UTF-8 on at least FreeBSD/Linux) using an abstracted > > RTLString. > > > Aren't filenames on Linux an array of bytes without any encoding by > definition?
I never saw that. The encoding is sometimes a bit opague yes. It will be a practical detail which exact 1-byte encoding to choose for rtlstring (cp_utf8, rawbytestring or default). Whatever works best. > Are you sure there are no Linux running with other system > encoding than utf-8 today? No. Does it matter? > How are imported filesystems with other encodings (for example Samba > shares) handled? Don't see a relevance here. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
