On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Michael Schnell wrote:
With Delphi, TStringList seems to be hard coded to use UTF16 with "Add"
and StringList[i] (which is a really bad idea in a String system
providing versatile encoding). TStringList.LoadFromFile seems do default
to the system ANSI encoding (which seems like rather contra-intuitive in
a system that defaults to coding strings as UTF16).
With Lazarus, TStringList seems to be (considered to be, as
StrinCodePage(SomeString ) is 65001) hard coded to use UTF8 with "Add"
and StringList[i] (which is a bad idea, as well, but not worse than
Delphi forcing UTF16) TStringList.LoadFromFile uses (defaults to) "no
conversion" which in fact means UTF8 encoding (which in fact is straight
forward and obvious, and hence better than Delphi).
I don't see why a redesign of the "hard coded UF8" TStringList would be
necessary just for setting the code of the file to be loaded by
There is no 'hard coded UTF8' stringlist.
This is an assumption made by Lazarus LCL, which - depending on the version
of FPC - sets the default single-byte string codepage to UTF8.
TStringList is not part of Lazarus, and hence must cater for other codepages
as well.
Michael.
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