On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:25:43 +0100 Michael Schnell <mschn...@lumino.de> wrote:
>[...] > A friend of mine wants to port an application from Delphi 7 to a be a > Lazarus 64 Bit Windows application. > > This (huge) application only features a very limited GIU, but uses > strings lot for "uncoded" characters, going in and out via TCP/IP. Any > automatic type conversion would kill the application. > > So it would be necessary that fpc is configured to use the (old) 8 bit > Strings. These might be used with UTF8 encoding for the GUI stuff (and > for some limited locations in the business-code with *explicit* > conversion). > > Is this possible with the current version of Lazarus ? FPC 3.0+ does not arbitrarily change the encoding of strings. That's why the LCL can use UTF-8 in AnsiStrings even without the new UTF-8 mode. It works pretty similar to FPC 2.6.4. The many encoding discussions raised from the problem that the LCL uses UTF-8 strings in RTL classes which expect system encoding. Your friend does not have this problem. Your friend can use the LCL for the GUI with disabled UTF-8 mode. He has to check (convert) the strings between his TCP/IP code and the LCL controls (e.g. UTF8ToSys). As he has only a small GUI this should be easy. > As I lost the clue on the planned path regarding code-aware strings: > will this be possible with future versions of Lazarus ,as well ? The new UTF-8 mode is easier for new projects. Many old projects still use the old mode. So chances are high that it will be supported the next years. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
