>Does it means that the source of all current projects for Win32 should
>be reedited?
What is reediting?
Let's classify all problems of such changes:
1. Source problem (both national comments and string constants). It will be
possible to fix this with my patch only by including {&encoding=ANSI}in old
version and changing this to {&encoding=UTF8} (or just deleting this line) when
UTF8 support will be completed.
2. National resources problem. More difficult thing, but may be solved by iconv
(or so on) or with a "hacked lfm" with {&encoding....}
3. National strings in saved files. This is almost unfixible without manual
translation (it is theoretically possible to introduce and distinguish another
string type - UTF8 string like delphi's WideString, and when conversion is
required, it should be done automatically to/from ANSI i.e. current 1-byte
encoding, but it seems like not to be purposed in lazarus).
4. WinApi functions. Only manual translation, I think. WinApi shouldn't be used
except some very specific cases.
5. "Hidden" WinApi calls (ShowMessage, Application.MessageBox). I think,
autotranslation from UTF8 (if it is used) MUST be done, but it may be fogotten.
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