Vincent Snijders wrote: > Bernd Mueller schreef: > >> Hello, >> >> I would like to use Lazarus without Unicode support on Windows, as it >> was possible up to version 0.9.24. I took a recent 0.9.27 snapshot and >> compiled it with -dDisableWindowsUnicodeSupport. My "old" projects seem >> work well, but the editor does not show the german umlauts correct. I >> changed File Settings.../Encodings but this did not help. >> As for Synedit: 1) There may be code elsewhere, that detects the filetype while loading the file => in this case it should convert it to utf8.
2) If one doesn't happen. Try the following. (I have not tested it, but it *may* do the trick) open C:\lazarus_latest\components\synedit\syntextdrawer.pp line 889 function TheTextDrawer.GetUseUTF8: boolean; and make the function to always return "False" >> For sure, I belong to a minority which has no need for Unicode. For me, >> it would be great to have Unicode disabled in Lazarus. So what is the >> intention behind "DisableWindowsUnicodeSupport" in theses days? If it >> should work, I would make a bug report. >> > > My response can be seen as an addition to Paul's. > > As far as I am concerned, the dDisableWindowsUnicodeSupport does not > need to be removed. OTOH working with -dDisableWindowsUnicodeSupport has > no priority for me. If the Lazarus community does the testing and > supplies patches, I don't mind committing them (much like I said about > the fixes_0_9_26 branch, no effort form me, but willing to support the > efforts of others). > > I am willing to accept bug reports, if it turns out that a regression > was caused by on of my commits, i.e. it worked before with > DisableWindowsUnicodeSupport, and after it didn't. > > Having said that, I fear that some incompatibilities remain, because the > LCL (not the win32 interface) insert conversion to UTF8 when using RTL > functions in for example the TFileListBox. > > Finding a solution for such issue is not a priority for me, but patches > will be reviewed and accepted if ok. > > Vincent > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
