I used the Delphi-to-Lazarus convertion for my (Delphi) program. Why
isn't it also converting to UTF-8 if that's necessary?
Maybe we should consider removing the convert from the IDE, if it
misleads more than helps.
I don't think so, it's better than nothing. The problem is, that there
are more pitfalls than the conversion routine handles (can handle?).
I just converted to UTF-8 but now got problems with constant strings in
MessageBox calls which require Ansi instead of UTF-8. It's quite awkward
if different codings are used within one source code file. I would have
expected that one single encoding (UTF-8?) is used throughout all source
code and all routines that need a different encoding do the conversion
themselve. Now each programmer has to learn for each and every routine
what encoding is used (and that's not even documented within the help
for these routines).
Why confront the programmer with more complexity than needed? Especially
those who start learning programming from scratch realy have a hard time
if such (IMO unnecessary) things are not avoided.
Jürgen Hestermann.
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