On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de> wrote: > Huh? Now I know why it is as it is. > How can you say that all this is obvious? > Why is it obvious that FindFirst expects ANSI enconding > while CopyFile needs UTF8. How should a programmer know this? > It does not fall from sky.
I said that the ansistring example is obvious, not the encodings, which indeed are a gotcha. For the encodings I only said that it would be too much duplication. It is better to document this issues once in 1 single place. And we already have a large documentation about all of this. Just read here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/LCL_Unicode_Support About FindFirst, you should know that there is FindFirstUTF8: http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/lcl/fileutil/findfirstutf8.html -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
