On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich <drdiettri...@aol.com> wrote: > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb: > >> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Jürgen Hestermann >> <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de> wrote: >>> >>> But if you use a function from a (Free Pascal or Lazarus) library it is >>> not >>> clear which kind of encoding this function expects. As I already >>> mentioned, >>> for example CopyFile (from LCL) and FindFirst (from SysUtils) have no >>> hint >>> in their documentation on what encoding is expected. I know, somewhere it >>> says that library x has enconding y but why wasn't this information >>> written >>> to the documentation for the indiviudal functions? >> >> >> It would be a huge duplication of documentation to write in every >> single Lazarus function that uses string that it expects UTF-8. > > > It would be much easier to use an TFileName string type instead, for > self-documenting declarations. > > DoDi
+1 Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
