On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 05:06:27PM -0200, Marcos Douglas wrote: >> > FPC 2.7.x can compile the windows unit in unicode (UTF16) mode. Most >> > system and >> > sysutils file related routines are already unicode (UTF16 with >> > Rawbytestring >> > overload). >> >> So FPC 2.7.x can compile the windows unit in unicode (UTF16) mode. But >> how it will work with Lazarus that uses UTF-8? > > Not without conversions. UTF8 on Windows IMHO _NEVER_ was a good idea. > >> Lazarus will not to >> change to UTF-16 -- only for Windows -- then everything will stay the >> same to Windows programmers? > > I think it is too early to say what will happen. One way or the other. > Everybody is still searching, and the current 2.6.x based UTF8 support will > need an overhaul anyway for 2.8.x. > > I think 2.8.x will be a transition version anyway, and a definitive unicode > solution will only in the major release after that.
Ok, thanks for the explanation. Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
