In our previous episode, Martin Schreiber said: > > Is this possible in UNIX? I can see that in Windows you can use the > > trick to use W versions which are identical except for the string type > > and drop Windows 9x support, but is this really possible for the UNIX > > syscalls? They expect UTF-8 not UTF-16 which is what UnicodeString > > uses. > > > Linux expects an array of bytes in filenames (no encoding, no utf-8) AFAIK.
It is a bit agnostic yes. But does that really matter if all other programs write filenames in utf8 encoding? It might as well be specified to be utf-8 then, there is no difference in approach. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
