On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:05:59 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich <drdiettri...@aol.com> wrote:
>[...]
> BTW it's nice that FPC console Write/Ln (mostly) converts AnsiStrings to
> the console codepage, while Delphi (XE) doesn't convert :-)
+1
Although it confuses people who don't know about "console
codepage" (OEM codepage).
> But I found a somewhat strange result with generic String variables,
> tested with:
>
> var A: AnsiString; S: String;
> begin
> S := ' äöü';
> A := S;
> //S := A; //changes nothing
> WriteLn('A CP: ',StringCodePage(A), A); //always shows ' äöü'
> WriteLn('S CP: ',StringCodePage(S), S); //letters differ
> end.
What codepage is the source file?
Many things affect string literals. Source codepage, system codepage,
string type, defaultsystemcodepage, library, compiler version.
I started a table for UTF-8 literals:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Character_and_string_types#String_constants
Mattias
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