On 07 Jan 2014, at 15:54, Jy V wrote:
> n Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be>wrote:
>
>> For this reason I've created an overview that explains the rules that are
>> followed by the RTL/compiler at
>> http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_Unicode_support
>
> "it is best to save the source code in UTF-8 with a BOM."
This is the full quote: "it is best to include either an explicit {$codepage
xxx} directive or save the source code in UTF-8 with a BOM" (which I've now
clarified a bit on the wiki page). Both are equally good as far as FPC is
concerned.
> Is this recommendation is compatible with Delphi7, Delphi 2007 ?
Delphi doesn't know the {$codepage xxx} directive, but you can put it between
{$ifdef fpc}. I don't know whether it automatically detects UTF-8-encoded files
(or even handles them at all), especially these older versions. If it doesn't,
you can still save your source code in any code page and add a {$codepage xxx}
statement for FPC. Additionally, I forgot to mention that you can also specify
the used code page on the command line with FPC, via the -Fc parameter.
Jonas
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